Bluetooth trackers are a useful tool — but they've also been misused for stalking. In 2024, Apple and Google jointly published an industry specification for detecting unwanted location trackers. FIQI Tag follows that specification fully. Here's exactly what that means for your privacy and your safety.
The Apple-Google industry specification
In May 2024, Apple and Google released a cross-platform standard requiring Bluetooth trackers to implement specific anti-stalking behaviors. Any compliant tracker (including AirTag, Tile, Chipolo, and FIQI Tag) must:
- Rotate its Bluetooth advertising address frequently, so a stalker can't follow you by sniffing for a fixed ID
- Make itself detectable by both iPhones and Android phones (you don't need the right app to be alerted)
- Emit an audible chime when separated from its owner for an extended period
- Allow any phone to read the tracker's owner contact info via NFC if turned over to the rightful owner
How FIQI Tag follows the spec
1. Rotating BLE addresses
Your FIQI Tag changes its Bluetooth advertising identifier every few minutes. This means even if someone were monitoring nearby Bluetooth traffic, they couldn't reliably follow the same tag across time and place.
2. Unknown tracker alerts (iPhone)
Apple's Find My will automatically alert any iPhone user (iOS 14.5+) if an unknown compatible tracker — including a FIQI Tag, AirTag, or Tile — has been traveling with them for 8 to 24 hours. The alert includes options to:
- Play a sound on the tracker to locate it physically
- See the tracker on a map
- View disable instructions
3. Unknown tracker alerts (Android)
Google's Find Hub on Android 9+ has the same feature, enabled by default. Settings → Safety & Emergency → Unknown Tracker Alerts. You can also run a manual scan from this screen at any time.
4. Audible separation alarm
If your FIQI Tag is separated from its owner for 8–24 hours, it begins emitting a short audible chime every few minutes. You can hear it through pockets, lining, and most fabric.
5. End-to-end encryption
The location of your FIQI Tag is encrypted with a key only you (the owner) can decrypt. FIQI the company cannot see where any tag is, ever. The Find network operators (Apple, Google) also cannot see locations — they just relay encrypted blobs.
If you receive an unknown tracker alert
- Don't panic. Most alerts are harmless — a friend's tracker that ended up in a borrowed bag, a delivery item, a hotel that handed out a key with a tracker on it.
- Get to a safe location before investigating. Home, a police station, a friend's house. Don't investigate in an isolated parking lot.
- Use the alert to play sound and find the tracker physically.
- Disable the tracker. For any FIQI Tag: press the button 5 times within 2 seconds to disable. Full instructions on our tracker safety page.
- If you feel unsafe or believe you are being stalked, contact local law enforcement and keep the tracker as evidence (still disabled). Email abuse@fiqisupport.com — we work with law enforcement on confirmed stalking cases.
For domestic violence resources
In the United States: National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-7233 or thehotline.org. UK: National Domestic Abuse Helpline 0808 2000 247.
Bottom line
FIQI Tag implements every protection the industry standard requires. That doesn't mean trackers can never be misused — but the modern detection and response systems give you the tools to find and disable any unknown tracker quickly. We take this seriously, and we're committed to staying ahead of the spec as it evolves.
Questions? Email support@fiqisupport.com.