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Welcome to the OpenTagViewer wiki!

This wiki contains a summary of some good-to-know information when it comes to using the OpenTagViewer Android app.

Prerequisites 🤓

To use the app at this point in time, you're going to need:

• Android phone with OpenTagViewer app installed
• A (free) Apple Account with 2FA enabled either via SMS or Trusted Device
• One or more AirTags, which need to already be registered with Apple via the iOS FindMy app
  • Currently this requires somebody to have an iOS device (i.e. iPad or iPhone) to register them.
  • This iOS device is only needed once during AirTag registration.
  • The owner of some iOS device can also simply share "their" AirTags with your (new) Apple Account after registering them.
• A Mac or MacOS Virtual Machine of MacOS/OSX version Sonoma (14) or LOWER (so: not MacOS Sequoia (15)!).
  • Check out the project sickcodes/Docker-OSX which allows you to set up a MacOS Sonoma (14) VM for free
  • This Mac is only needed once to export details about the AirTags for import into the Android App

How to set everything up 🏃

1. Install the OpenTagViewer Android app on your phone
2. Choose an Anisette Server (you can change this later)
   • If you want to set up your own custom Anisette server, see 📖this wiki page
3. Log in to your Apple Account in the app
   • You will likely be prompted to enter your 2FA code the first time you connect to the chosen Anisette server
   • Only SMS and Trusted Device authentication is currently possible
4. Generate an export .zip file by using the MacOS Exporter Tool as explained in 📖 this wiki page
5. Import the .zip file in the OpenTagViewer UI as explained in 📖 this wiki page
6. Profit! You will now be able to track your AirTags on your Android phone indefinitely