Apple releases Android app to help find sneaky AirTags

Apple has discharged an app named Tracker Detect, which the company says testament let Android users search for AirTags OR different Find My-compatible trackers, such as the Chipolo Peerless Spot tracking tag (via CNET). According to the app, information technology looks for devices that cause been separated from their owners — if it finds any, it bequeath let you play a sound on it so you stool situate IT, and information technology will give you instructions on how to puzzle out who the AirTag belongs to and how to disable it if need embody.

Apple announced that this app was coming in June, promising that it would allow Android users to find potentially malicious trackers being used without their knowledge. Dissimilar on iOS, though, IT doesn't seem like this app will constantly do scans in the desktop and cognisant you if something is upwardly — it's purely a non-automatic look for. Tracker Find likewise doesn't help you keep track of the AirTags pledged to an Orchard apple tree account, thusly it's not serving Android users actually role AirTags.

*You can endure a manual glance over with Tracker Detect.*

Apple didn't immediately respond to request for comment from The Verge, simply told CNET that the app "gives Android users the ability to scan for an AirTag or supported Find My enabled detail trackers that might be traveling with them without their knowledge. We are raising the bar on concealment for our users and the industry, and hope others will postdate."

For at least two Verge staffers, Tracker Detect didn't show up in a Play Hive away search along our devices. However, you can install it past following this link to its store page.