Lawsuits have been filed against Apple by people who were secretly stalked or tracked by ex-partners who were using hidden AirTags. The victims accuse Apple of selling AirTags without adequate safeguard to prevent surveillance.
What You Can Do & How We Can Help
The Schmidt Firm, PLLC is currently accepting Apple AirTag stalking cases in all 50 states. If you were stalked, harassed, or tracked by a person who used a hidden AirTag, you should contact our lawyers immediately for a free case consultation. Please use the form below to contact our Product Liability Litigation Group or call toll free 24 hours a day at (866) 920-0753.
Quick Facts About the Apple AirTag Lawsuits
- Defendant: Apple Inc.
- Product: Apple AirTag, a coin-sized Bluetooth tracking device
- Released: April 2021
- Lawsuits claim: AirTags were released without enough safeguards to prevent stalking and secret surveillance
- Harm alleged: Fear for safety, anxiety, emotional and psychological damage, and life disruption
- Lawsuits pending: At least 20+ lawsuits filed across 17 federal districts as of August 2026
- MDL status: A motion filed August 4, 2026 asks the JPML to centralize the cases in the District of Arizona
- Manufacturer resources: Apple AirTag product page
Why Are Lawsuits Being Filed for AirTag Stalking?
AirTags were advertised for finding lost keys, bags, and other items. Instead, lawsuits claim that AirTags also worked dangerously well for ex-partners who were secretly tracking, stalking, and surveilling their victims by hiding an AirTag in their vehicle or personal belongings.
What is an AirTag?
An AirTag is a coin-sized Bluetooth device that is tiny enough to slip under a car seat, into a purse, or a child’s backpack. AirTags use Apple’s “Find My” network to report their location, which works by using the Bluetooth signal of any nearby iPhone. This is how an AirTag can follow a person nationwide without any action by the person who hid it.
What Do AirTag Lawsuits Claim?
Lawsuits claim that before Apple released AirTags, they knew (or should have known) that it could be misused for stalking and surveillance with no consent from the victim. Apple is accused of choosing to release AirTags without adequate guardrails to warn potential victims that they were being followed.
What Did Apple Know About the Risk?
The lawsuit includes evidence that Apple understood in April 2021 that adequate protections were not yet built into AirTags when the product was released, including internal documents that surfaced early in the litigation during discovery. Lawyers claim that Apple knew the existing safeguards would only deter misuse rather than prevent it.
The lawsuit filed in Michigan also claims that Apple violated state consumer protection laws by “representing to the public that AirTags included adequate safeguards against stalking and unwanted tracking” while selling the devices.
Why Did AirTags Fail to Warn Victims?
AirTag lawsuits identify several missing safeguards in Apple’s original anti-tracking features, including:
- At launch, an AirTag separated from its owner could take 3 days to play an alert, and notifications to a victim could lag 4-8 hours behind the tracking itself
- Android users had no automatic detection at all when AirTags were launched. Today, Google and Apple have a cross-platform standard to notify users of tracking.
- Apple’s “Tracker Detect” app for Android was released in December 2021, but users had to suspect they were being stalked, know about the app, find it, download it, and manually run scans
- The speaker on an AirTag can be physically removed
August 2026: AirTag Stalking Lawsuit Filed by 2 Women in Michigan
On August 10, 2026, two women from Michigan filed an Apple AirTag Stalking Lawsuit. The women filed the lawsuit under pseudonyms. Both women claim they were stalked by ex-partners who used hidden AirTags to track their location.
One of the women said her ex began stalking her in July 2026. She grew suspicious when he repeatedly arrived at her location, including a public park and a fireworks event she never told him about. She tried relocating to a new residence, but he still showed up at her door on July 23. Two days later, her son discovered a hidden AirTag in her vehicle. She said she had an iPhone but was never alerted about an unknown AirTag tracking her location.
The other plaintiff in the lawsuit is a woman who left an abusive 4-year relationship. She said she moved to a new apartment in March 2023. On the same days she moved in, her ex-partner arrived at her residence, banged on her door, and keyed her vehicle.
Two weeks later, she found an AirTag hidden under the back seat of her car. At the time, she was using an Android phone and had no idea she was being tracked. She only discoverd the hidden AirTag after her visiting neice received an alert about the AirTag on her iPhone.
The lawsuit was filed by two women using pseudonyms (Jane MH Doe-1 and Jane WP Doe-2). The case was filed on August 10, 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division – Case 2:26-cv-12764-GAD-CI.
How Many AirTag Stalking Lawsuits Have Been Filed?
As of August 2026, at least 20 individual AirTag stalking lawsuits have been filed nationwide in at least 17 federal districts. Lawyers are now seeking to have the litigation centralized into a single federal court.
What Is the Status of the Apple AirTag MDL?
On August 4, 2026, lawyers filed a motion with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to consolidate all federal AirTag stalking lawsuits into a single federal court under one judge: the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona before Judge Diane Humetewa, who already oversees related AirTag claims.
What Are Victims Asking For?
AirTag lawsuits bring claims for negligence, product liability, design defect, invasion of privacy through intrusion upon seclusion, and violation of consumer protection laws. The plaintiffs are seeking compensatory and exemplary damages, attorneys’ fees, and an injunction addressing the design, manufacture, and sale of AirTags.
Who Could Qualify to File a Lawsuit?
Our lawyers are reviewing claims from people who were stalked by a person using a hidden AirTag, and suffered serious emotional, physical, or financial harm as a result of this non-consensual surveillance
You do not need to have been physically injured. You do not need the person who placed the tracker to have been criminally charged. What matters is that the AirTag was hidden and used to track you without your knowledge. Time limits apply to these claims, so it is better to have a lawyer review your situation early than to wait.
Apple has not been found liable in any of these cases, and none of the allegations described on this page have been proven in court.
Do I Have an Apple AirTag Lawsuit?
The Schmidt Firm, PLLC is currently accepting Apple AirTag stalking cases in all 50 states. If you were stalked, harassed, or tracked by a person who used a hidden AirTag, you should contact our lawyers immediately for a free case consultation. Please use the form below to contact our Product Liability Litigation Group or call toll free 24 hours a day at (866) 920-0753.
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