How To Put AirTag In Lost Mode
Here is how you put an Apple AirTag in lost mode in 6 simple steps.
Open Find My App on your iPhone, iPad Or Mac.
You can see the Items tab at the bottom tap on it. Pick the AirTag you want to mark as lost if you have more than one AirTags added to your Apple ID.
You will see all the settings of your AirTag. Scroll a little bit to find Lost Mode. Tap on it and click Enable.
Once you will click enable you will see details about what will happen when an AirTag is marked as lost. Click Continue.
Enter your phone number. Provide the number correctly as it will be used when someone finds the AirTag. Add a message for someone who will find your AirTag. Once you have added the phone number and message tap Next.
Turn on the toggle of Notify when found. So you will get a notification when the location will be updated.
Note: You can turn on Notify when found or customize the message only if you are away from your AirTag. By following the above steps you can turn on lost mode for your Apple AirTag. Now when you have done that let’s understand what will happen next. When an Apple device will come within the range of AirTag they might see a message that someone’s AirTag is nearby. They can also hear the beep sound. Also Read: Fix “AirTag Not Reachable Move Around To Connect” Error
How the Lost Mode on AirTag will help you?
If someone finds your AirTag they can tap with their iPhone or any NFC-enabled smartphone on the white side of AirTag. Tapping on it will open a web page with the phone number and the message you have left while marking the AirTag as lost. By using the phone number the person who finds it can contact you and you will get your item bag. So, If you have the sake of losing things and owns an iPhone, AirTag is the product most suited to you. Buy an AirTag, attach it to your Bag, Keys or Wallet. Now, whenever you will lose an AirTag attached item you’ll be able to find them using your iPhone. There are two possibilities in losing things. You lose things within the home or outside the home.
Finding lost item within the home
If you have lost something that has AirTag attached within the home. You have two options to find either play sound on AirTag or use the Precision Finding feature. Do remember Precision Finding works only with newer iPhone models having U1 chip.
Finding lost item outside home
But the real use case comes when you lost something outside your home. Let’s suppose you were traveling on a Train and forget your backpack. Now you are outside the station and the train has gone to the next station. In a normal situation, chances are very rare that you will find your backpack. Suppose you have attached an AirTag with your backpack now you have chances that you can find your backpack. You can see the location of your backpack by tracking the AirTag in FindMyApp. The location gets updated via other Apple devices that are a part of FindMyNetwork.
Bottom Line
There are over one billion Apple devices around the world. Whenever an Apple device comes near an AirTag the location gets updated. Now when you have the location of your lost item what you can do is enable lost mode on your AirTag using the above steps. If you have marked an AirTag as lost It will start beeping when another Apple device will come nearby.
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