Anyone else notice this? I couldn’t find any other info online apart from a Reddit post about two people reporting their AirTags no longer working after updating to iOS 17, so I wanted to post here for visibility and seek advice.
As soon as I updated to iOS 17, my YIP AirTag I used to track my cats location stopped working. Tried factory resetting and a different phone (also on ios17) without success. My other Apple-branded AirTags work perfectly fine.
If Apple truly did nuke support for devices I already own, I am one step closer to abandoning their walled garden…… anyone else here possibly able to confirm this is happening to them too? Is there another community I should be posting this to?
Replying in case it helps another lurking lemming one day:
I ended up replacing the tag with an OEM AirTag in the end.
I spoke with the manufacturers tech support, and they said they were not able to reproduce my issue.
After factory resetting it and replacing the battery multiple times, I was able to get it to load into find my again - but it stopped working again shortly afterwards…. Not at all worth the hassle.