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		beart on Aug 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused o... Some comments suggest this application only works while it is open, and will not passively notify you of trackers in the background. I don't know if that's true, or if it's just due to some phone OS killing the background process to prop up battery metrics.

charcircuit on Aug 18, 2022 [–]

>to prop up battery metrics

The primary reason is to increase user privacy from apps constantly logging everything they see while in the background.

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