How long does an AirTag beep last when away from me?

I have an airtag that I put it in my small child's school backpack. it is paired and set up to my iphone.

When my child came home from the bus today, my child's teacher aid asked me "what is this" while holding it in her hand. She said she found this in his backpack and that it was beeping in the classroom.

Now I didn't do anything. I didn't report is lost or did anything on" find my" app on my iphone at home.


I didn't get a chance to ask her how long did they hear the beep.


My question is, is this supposed to beep when it is away from me in his backpack at school? How long do they beep? Anyway to turn off the beeping?


Also once in a while, sometimes even at home where the bagpack is and where my iphone is, i could hear beep from the backpack. doesn't beep all the time at home but it does beep abour two or three times at home sometimes when we have the backpack at home with me.


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Posted on May 23, 2023 5:16 PM

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Posted on May 19, 2024 11:44 AM

That can't be true, I have a set of 4 air tags paired with my iPhone and they are literally sitting within 5 feet of my phone and one is beeping. So it's not out of range of the phone. So your explanation can't be true

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Jan 2, 2025 5:32 AM in response to Tesserax

So I've just spent £20 (well £80 as I bought pack of four) on something designed to tell me if an item is under a cushion nearby. I can lift a cushion.

But it will beep in the theatre if my phone needs charging or is switched off or beep on a nightflight if my phone is in airplane mode.

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Feb 9, 2025 12:36 AM in response to Tesserax

"It is not meant to track people or pets, but to help you locate a missing item." What if your pet is missing, or your child? That is a big reason people purchase these. I put one in our car, (in case it goes missing) and on several instances the air tag will make a sound as we are driving down the ally away from our house. Not every time we leave home, but randomly. One thing I have wondered is because it was set up at our home, and uses that location for some reason. We purchased one for our son to attach to his dog's collar because she once escaped and was lost. Luckily he found her. He set the dog's air tag at his home, but we have been keeping his dog because their fence was damaged and she could escape. When he comes to visit her, he has told us sometimes his phone will alert him he has left her behind. This happens by it's self. In my reference the phone is in the same car as the air tag and it will sometimes make a tone.



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Feb 17, 2025 7:45 AM in response to myapple312

I have two devices in my most expensive cars. Always I start to drive it also start beeping. My first idea was thats fine it says Hello to owner. But NO. It’s beeping when my girlfriend drives alone with kids. So it also say Hello Thief I’m somewhere here to track you🤦‍♂️ Really BAD when it can’t to be silent.

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Mar 2, 2025 8:51 PM in response to myapple312

My airtags make the chirping sound and it sets off an alarm that sound like the Verizon ringtone on my Iphone XR almost every time I sit at our dinner table. And this is with the ringer TURNED OFF. It is horrible. It will occasionally do this in my car causing an accident hazard as my phone will not stop ringing until I wake it up and swipe up on the screen. HORRIBLE!

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How long does an AirTag beep last when away from me?

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