Any truth to this? certain bags flagged at security checkpoint?

[ShayBells]

My Apple Watch has never set it off, and I never bother to cover it up. Modern scanners don't care about wearables.

Maybe it is a coincidence then. I am no expert. The one security guard last year, after I set it off, told me to cover my watch next time as I’m going through and after that I stopped being flagged. I honestly thought it was just random for the longest time.

 

[Victoria3]

If someone behind you is holding their umbrella or metal water bottle out and walking too close to your back, it could trigger for you.

This.

 

[Disnsyncey]

At work where we have evolve scanners, my normal purse gets flagged a lot even though I take my water bottle and umbrella out, and it's usually the zippers....but not all the time, because zippers end up laying in different ways each day.....

no anxiety needed! they're not leaving without you!

 

[Stacybaeasm]

I also wonder if they change the "intensity" of the scan. I went Memorial Day weekend and had the exact same bag, same contents. I went to Magic Kingdom twice - got stopped once and went through fine once. Same at Epcot. Nothing changed in my bag at all.

 

[SPAM]

I kept setting off the scanner in May and a security guard said it was my 2 birthday/celebrating pins I had put on my backpack. I transferred them to the outside of the stroller and didn't get stopped after that. I don't mind the extra check but it really blows when you are at MK for rope drop and waited in a long line with a stroller to get through to then go into another line for the extra check.

 

[CoachBeard]

They probably pick at random unless, as others have mentioned, there is something inside the bag that could potentially flag it. It wouldn't make sense to only target a certain type of bag because every bag owner will have different items inside of it.

 

[sponica]

At work where we have evolve scanners, my normal purse gets flagged a lot even though I take my water bottle and umbrella out, and it's usually the zippers....but not all the time, because zippers end up laying in different ways each day.....

no anxiety needed! they're not leaving without you!

My high heels used to set off the metal detectors at the court house where I interned.

I must say that the monorail at the Contemporary was where they tore my loungefly apart even though I had used it all day long without a problem....

 

[Kooks and Bay Bay]

I must say that the monorail at the Contemporary was where they tore my loungefly apart even though I had used it all day long without a problem....

THIS.
Literally every time I have a non cotton bag I'm stopped at CR and POLY.
What stresses me out about my sister never getting stopped is that they tell her to keep walking and one time the monorail ended up coming and she said she needed to wait on the platform for me and they told her she couldn't so we were separated.
That is why I get anxious about it.

 

[tom1944]

Last year I had to go for the extra check at every park

 

[Disnsyncey]

THIS.
Literally every time I have a non cotton bag I'm stopped at CR and POLY.
What stresses me out about my sister never getting stopped is that they tell her to keep walking and one time the monorail ended up coming and she said she needed to wait on the platform for me and they told her she couldn't so we were separated.
That is why I get anxious about it.

I'm sorry that happened, that's dumb (but good thing they went to the same place!)

she can go with you into the line, or make sure you go ahead of her in the line so she knows and THEY know (because they SHOULD not intentionally separate groups) you are together......they have had people standing on the platform waiting for a different monorail because they didn't like the color, they shouldn't have any reason to make someone get on a particular monorail...

 

[Takeitforgranite]

We kept getting flagged last year. A nice security guy finally told us that having all our handheld fans in there together was the culprit. This year, we always made sure to hold our own fans through security, and we never once got stopped.

Well, there was that one time where my daughter volunteered to carry the backpack, and I didn't bother to tell her to hand out the fans. Of course, she got pulled, and I laughed. I consider it an experiment.

 

[MyNewAP]

Then it really doesn't make sense as to why I'd get stopped with mostly non metal items.

You don't.

Evolv scanners screen for metal. Period. You're either carrying something you don't realize includes metal, have metal in your body/clothes/bag (based on your initial post, your faux leather bag has a zipper/clasp/chain/insert that is triggering the scanner), or you're being pulled because of something that a security guard visually observed rather than because the scanner indicated.

 

[MyNewAP]

I also wonder if they change the "intensity" of the scan. I went Memorial Day weekend and had the exact same bag, same contents. I went to Magic Kingdom twice - got stopped once and went through fine once. Same at Epcot. Nothing changed in my bag at all.

Yes, they can change the sensitivity due to the "threat level" for that day. They have a minimum setting established that they never go below, but they can (and surely do) increase the sensitivity if they have some internal reason to believe its a good idea that day.

 

[sconnell]

I overheard a security guy telling someone at Grand Floridian that the tag on their Loungefly was probably what set it off. I have seen so many Loungefly bags go through without a problem, but perhaps some of them have different materials. This one was an actual Grand Floridian logo Loungefly and may be a higher quality than one from like Box Lunch. Just a theory, I have no basis for that.

 

[vinotinto]

Any kind of metal framing will set it off. I wear glasses and alternate between prescription sunglasses and regular glasses and finally learned that my sunglass case has metal framing and was setting it off. I now walk with my sunglass case in my hand up in front. And I was told anything I walk in my hand needs to be walked on the same hand...

 

[Dug720]

anything I walk in my hand needs to be walked on the same hand...

Meaning umbrella, water bottle, and/or glasses case held in one hand?

Or meaning "always hold it in your left/right hand"? Because how would the scanner know that you held it in the other hand a different day?

 

[Disnsyncey]

I always hold it in "a" hand AWAY from my body so if they're looking at the straight view they don't mistake it on my body and its OBVIOUS its in my hand

 

[vinotinto]

Meaning umbrella, water bottle, and/or glasses case held in one hand?

Or meaning "always hold it in your left/right hand"? Because how would the scanner know that you held it in the other hand a different day?

You have to hold it in a hand, but can't put something in one hand and one in the other unless you put one high and forward, and the other one low and forward, with no overlap. If I bring a water bottle, I hand it to someone else in my group because I can't grab an umbrella and my glass case in one hand and putting it in 2 hands will also flag it.

 

[Dug720]

You have to hold it in a hand, but can't put something in one hand and one in the other unless you put one high and forward, and the other one low and forward, with no overlap. If I bring a water bottle, I hand it to someone else in my group because I can't grab an umbrella and my glass case in one hand and putting it in 2 hands will also flag it.

Gotcha.

 

[summerlvr]

You have to hold it in a hand, but can't put something in one hand and one in the other unless you put one high and forward, and the other one low and forward, with no overlap. If I bring a water bottle, I hand it to someone else in my group because I can't grab an umbrella and my glass case in one hand and putting it in 2 hands will also flag it.

That's interesting because I always hold my umbrella in one hand and my metal water bottle in the other hand, both straight out in front of me at the same level and don't get flagged as long as I'm using my Vera backpack and not the Loungefly.