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What's the most extravagant thing you've bought for your pet, and do you regret it? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Inspired by watching my cat lay on her 6' (2 m) tall cat tower and sleep like a baby. Zero regrets, even if it makes us look like insane cat people for having a giant cat tower right in our living room. She lives here, she gets furniture too!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Airtags don’t work that well for tracking cats since it needs other iPhones nearby to send the location.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

We were waving iPhones feet away from the tag. It didn't get picked up so we wandered out to the neighborhood.

My guess is, to preserve battery, iPhones wake up and scan for nearby AirTags only X seconds at a time (don't have actual numbers, but guessing somewhere between 30-120 seconds). Whatever AirTag ID they pick up, they send anonymously to the cloud along with location. If the owner has the tag in lost mode and the ID matches, they get notified.

This means if you're walking around with your phone and it hasn't hit the scan window, you could miss the tag. This works in a high-density area like a city center with lots of phones waking up and scanning at different times, but not so much in low density places.

In that case, a GPS tag with cell modem might work better, but it's a lot pricier and requires regular charging.