Hulls thinks the technique outperforms Apple’s AirTag system, which produces a sound and alerts iPhone users that one of the trackers is following them. (Android users must download a different app to get comparable notifications.) “We ran our own limited internal testing (see findings here) to determine how soon AirTags would notify when tracking someone who was not their owner, and the results were unsatisfactory,” Hulls added. According to the CEO, tracking participants got their initial “an AirTag is travelling with you” signal between one to 24 hours of walking or driving — and sometimes not for many days.
Tile will “make available, to the fullest degree legally feasible, any data concerning any incidents of abuse of Tile devices that have been Anti-Theft activated,” according to Hull. Lastly, although I am certain that the figures will support our hypothesis, if we are proven incorrect, we will reverse direction and publicly apologise.”
