Apple Releases Tracker Detect Android App That Can Scan To AirTags

Apple on Monday released the Tracker Detect Android app, which allows users to find trackers compatible with Apple’s Find My network. Users can manually scan for trackers and can play sound on abandoned trackers.

When scanning manually with the Tracker Detect app, users are shown what kind of Find My trackers are in the vicinity of the user, such as whether any AirTags have been left behind. Users also get to see when an AirTag has been detected by the app for the first time. When Tracker Detect notices that a tracker has been with the user for at least ten minutes, users can have the tracker play a sound, in order to find the tracker.

In the app, Apple explains how users can learn more about an AirTag, namely by holding a smartphone with NFC support near the tracker. Apple also provides information in the app about how users can disable such a tracker. According to Apple, the app only looks at trackers that are separate from their owner.

Apple said it was already working on the Android app last June. For example, the company wants to use the app to combat stalking. There is no indication that further support for the AirTags is coming to Android.