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Old May 1, 2021 | 9:12 am
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Originally Posted by PGberkshire
My understanding is this Tag works on BLE (bluetooth) - so when in range of the Phone (say 20 feet max) it tells the Phone where it is.

As soon as out of Bluetooth range - the software will say its separated and its last location was X.
Maybe it's not the case with the Apple product, but I think that one tag that BA tried out (and I think even launched, Alex was fully behind that) had the ability of 'bouncing' its signal off other Bluetooth/radio beacons. It still had the same issues as I described in the post above, though, and its usefulness can be synthetised as being rather limited.

Ditto GPS.
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