Traveller terrified as she lands at airport and discovers she's 'been tracked'
A plane passenger has shared her horror after landing from her flight only to discover her phone was being tracked with an AirTag.
TikTok user @geegreenxo took to the platform for advice after the shocking message flashed up following her touch down.
Gee had caught a plane with a friend for a day trip from Leeds Bradford Airport, and left her phone on flight mode while in Ireland.
But arriving home in West Yorkshire, an alert popped up on her phone informing her someone had been following her movements with an AirTag, Dublin Live reports.
The Apple tag - a small tracking tag used like a keyring to locate objects - was planted onto her at 8.13am, only minutes after landing in Dublin, she told her followers.
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The small tags are only 1.26ins at their biggest, and are supposed to be used to stop people losing their possessions.
TikTok user @geegreenxo was horrified after realising someone had put a tracking device in her bag on a trip to Dublin (@geegreenxo/TikTok)
Gee only discovered she was being tracked after taking her phone off flight mode once she was back home from her trip, at which point she'd been tracked for hours (@geegreenxo/TikTok)The journey recorded showed all of her movement's while in Dublin and then over the Irish Sea on her return back to Leeds.
Posting the video, she said: "Been to Dublin today with my friend. Flew out this morning, flew back tonight, landed back in Leeds and I get this notification when I turn Airplane Mode off.
"So I’m like, ‘what’s this about?’ like it was the first thing that popped up on my phone when I turned Airplane Mode off.
"So, I clicked ‘OK’ at the bottom, and it then comes up with this ‘airtag detected’ sign that said it was ‘first thing with you today at 08:13 am'.
"Bearing in mind that at this time I was at Dublin Airport, I landed at about 8:00 am so had to go through security and things like that but at that time, I was at Dublin Airport.
“I thought, ‘this can’t be right,’ I don’t have an Airtag, and I’ve seen some videos about the glitches with Airpods, but I don’t own AirPods, I can’t afford them.
"So I had a look, to see had it been tracking me.
"Everywhere that I have been in Dublin today, it has been tracking me. So it started at the Airport, which again was at 8:13 am, followed me all the way into the city centre, everywhere that I’ve been in the city centre it has been following me.
The small device meant whoever planted it was able to follow her home over the Irish Sea (@geegreenxo/TikTok)"To the point where it has actually, wait for it.. Followed me all the way over the Irish Sea."
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The alert on Gee's phone told her "your current location can be seen by the owner of this AirTag".
Horrified, she quickly searched her bag and belongings to find the tag, and also used the 'Find My iPhone' feature to no success.
"As soon as I got off the plane, I stripped off. I searched every single pocket, I searched my hair, I searched my shoes, I searched my bra, I searched absolutely everywhere," she added.
“Then I thought, it has got to be in my bag. So I took my phone out, I took my passport out and I literally emptied my bag into the bin and watch.”
Thankfully, Gee's suspicions were correct after noticing the tacking stopped once she binned her bag.
Users commenting on the clip however told Gee the tag could have been used to trace the person who used it to follow her movements.
“You should have kept the AirTag because police are able to see who owns it, and can get full details of who tracked you," one person commented.
Another explained: “The reason it didn’t make a noise is because the person whose tag it is has removed the alarm out of the tag”.
According to Apple, “If any AirTag, AirPods, or other Find My network accessory separated from its owner is seen moving with you over time, you'll be notified."
“These features were created specifically to discourage people from trying to track you without your knowledge. If you have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, Find My will send a notification to your Apple device. “
Apple users who want to get alerts about AirTags can do so by switching "locations services" on in their settings, provided they have iOS or iPadOS 14.5 or later.
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