Airtag not updating its place even throughout a visit on a street stuffed with vehicles and with my iPhone close by

I’ve bought this AirTag one yr in the past.

Originally, it was working advantageous.

Now what occurs is that this: it takes hours to report the right location. I do know it relies on discovering an iPhone close by to transmit its place however think about this example.

I’ve it in my automobile. Not solely that, however I’ve my iPhone in my pocket, supposedly speaking with the AirTag. I do a two-hour drive. The street is stuffed with vehicles. The AirTag was supposed to make use of my iPhone, throughout the drive, to speak its place, proper?

I arrive on the vacation spot.

Two hours later, I verify, and it’s exhibiting its place as being in some extent I used to be after one hour of driving. A street which has tons of vehicles on a regular basis.

I suppose it’s malfunctioning, proper?

Not less than the time my iPhone was close by, it must be utilizing it to speak its place, proper?

1. Sure, I’ve changed the battery.
2. Sure, I even have eliminated it and paired it once more.
3. Sure, I did reset the settings on this iPhone.
4. The AirTag will use my iPhone the time I’m close by, proper?
5. How frequent AirTags ping their place?
6. Once in a while it takes 2 days to indicate the right place.
7. I’ve in contrast the reported place on FindMy on iPhone, iPad, and macOS and the iPhone studies one other place completely completely different!!!!!!!!!!! The iPhone exhibits a localization close to the vacation spot!

Its firmware is model 2.0.61.

thanks