What is the AirTag History evidence report?

It is a timestamped PDF built from the location reports we recorded for one tag: each report with its time, its place name and its raw coordinates, with stops and long dwells flagged, and a footer stating how many snapshots it covers and over what span. It exists so you can hand the timeline to somebody who has no login and no reason to trust you.

What the report contains

• A header identifying the tag by the name you gave it, the span the report covers, a report reference, and the date it was issued.
• One row per recorded location report: the time, the reverse-geocoded place, "Bakersfield, CA" rather than a bare number pair, and the latitude and longitude behind it.
• Stops and dwell time, flagged: the overnight halt at a truck stop, the six days in a Long Beach storage yard.
• A footer with the count of location snapshots and the number of days they span, so the reader can see the density of what they are looking at.

Nothing in it is interpreted for you. The report says a tag was at these coordinates at these times and sat still for this long. What that means for your dispute is an argument you make on top of it.

Why a PDF, when you already have the map

Because the person who needs convincing is not going to log in. A claims adjuster, a moving company's dispute desk, an airline's baggage office. These all work in email attachments and case files. A link to a live map behind an account is not something they can file.

It is also fixed. The dashboard keeps changing as new reports arrive; the report is a copy of what the record said on the day you exported it, with the issue date printed on it. That is a more useful thing to argue from than a page that looks different every time somebody opens it.

How the rows read

Each row is one report the Find My network actually returned, not an estimate of where the tag probably was between them. A quiet stretch appears as a gap between two timestamps, because that is what happened: no passing iPhone relayed a sighting.

• Times are the timestamps on the reports themselves, shown in one timezone, so say which one when you send it.
• Place names come from reverse geocoding the coordinates. They are a convenience label, and the coordinates beside them are the fact.
• A flagged stop means the tag reported from effectively the same spot across a run of reports, with the duration attached.
• Dense city stretches produce many rows; a warehouse can produce none for hours. Both are honest outputs of the same process.

What the report is not

• Not certified, notarised, or sworn. It is a record we generated from data we recorded.
• Not from Apple, and not endorsed by Apple. AirTag History is independent.
• Not proof of contents. It documents where a tag went, not what travelled with it.
• Not a legal instrument, and nothing here is legal advice. Whether any record counts as evidence depends on the forum and the jurisdiction.
• Not a reconstruction. It contains the reports we received and nothing invented to fill the quiet parts.

We leave the gaps in deliberately. A report that drew a smooth line through eleven unobserved hours would be easier to look at and worth less the moment anyone checked it.

Which pass includes it

The evidence report sits on The Move pass and above, the tier that also turns on stops and dwell-time detection, which is what makes the flagged rows possible. The free tier and the Track pass give you live tracking, the timeline, and CSV or GPX export, but not the PDF.

Before you generate one

1. Give the tag a name that means something to the reader: "Kitchen boxes", not "AirTag 3". The name is printed on the report.
2. Pick the range that covers the dispute, from pickup to delivery, rather than everything you have.
3. Check which timezone you are reading times in, and use the same one in your covering email.
4. Export the CSV at the same time. Some people want the underlying rows, and handing both over first looks better than being asked.
5. Generate the report while your tracking window is active, or export the timeline for later.