Comment by jon-wood
9 hours ago
I'm curious whether the improved range is actually going to make the product worse for my particular use case, which is being alerted when I've left my bag somewhere (this has happened to me at least 5 times over the years). My understanding is that the item left behind notifications are triggered when your phone loses contact with the AirTag, so increased range can potentially take me from being notified as I step off the train to being notified as I leave the station and the train has departed.
It triggers within a certain radius that you can change in the settings to be wider or narrower. It's not specifically when it loses contact with the device.