It just would be nice to allow the owner to choose, which I'm betting you can do with Tile. 😆
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AirTag Owners Bemoan Inability to Let Others Track Their Items Via Family Sharing
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Hey and how about 5 air tags on poor Fido the dog so we can all track him. Poor Fido
and damn thats getting expensive!AirTags aren’t meant to track people/animals. That’s the whole point. They make it abundantly clear the airtag isn’t for people tracking . People don’t seem to understand that and try to put it in their car/pets etc.
Apple's new AirTag item trackers have been making their way into the hands of customers since Friday, and while the company has tried to describe the ways that they can be used to find lost items, many users are still surprised and disappointed to learn that the location of an AirTag can't be shared with other family members.
On the face of it, sharing the location of an AirTag via Apple's Family Sharing feature should be a no-brainer, since individual members in a Family Sharing group can use the Find My app to see the location of other family members' Apple devices, including iPhones, iPads, Macs, AirPods, and Apple Watches.
Given those Family Sharing privileges, many users have understandably assumed that an AirTag attached to an item that's regularly used by more than one person in the household (a set of keys, for example) could be tracked by multiple family members within Find My.
Unfortunately, however, AirTags don't work like other Apple devices in Find My, and several users have taken to the MacRumors forums, Reddit, and Apple's community support site to share their displeasure after learning about the Family Sharing limitation:
As Apple has explained, the only AirTag privilege afforded to people in an iCloud Family Sharing group is that they can silence the "AirTag Detected" safety alert that appears when an AirTag is traveling with them that is registered to someone else. (Likewise, the owner of the AirTag can disable the safety alerts to prevent someone else's iPhone from detecting it as unwanted tracking.)
But that's as far as the Family Sharing functionality goes. AirTags are only meant to be owned by one person, and it's not currently possible to share an AirTag's location with another family member using another Apple ID. It's likely that Apple has omitted this feature due to privacy concerns, so whether or not it intends to introduce it in the future via some other form of implementation remains to be seen.
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OMG, what a useless product. Finally got a set of 4 and no one but me can take the dog for a walk or the thing start going off. So much for user focused design.
Just assumed like any apple product it can be used by the family. Had I know this earlier would not have purchased.
Just assumed like any apple product it can be used by the family. Had I know this earlier would not have purchased.
Or resell them?
I don't even think that the other locator tags are generic, are they? I had many of them, and never had that need so don't know...
I have put them on many things, and the wife said I have so many she wondered if I had one on her. *shrug*
No. If you can't trust the most important person in your life, putting an AirTag on them just signifies that you should probably be waling out the door than trying to track them. *shrug* I had enough hell with a cheater early on. Be gone!! It takes a lot to make that decision sometimes, but...
I have thought of tagging the dog. He loves to find a cozy spot and refuse to come out until his name is called at a significant volume.