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AirTag Owners Bemoan Inability to Let Others Track Their Items Via Family Sharing
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This is what we've had to do with Tiles, like I've done with the keys when I've left my vehicle at home while taking my wife's van to collect the oldest and her belongings at college, before summer break.
Why do you need to track her with an AirTag? She can share her location via her phone and you can see where she is. Or are you planning for a kidnapping rescue operation?
As has been stated many times, the husband can already do that by seeing the location of the wife’s phone/watch etc.
She can turn that sharing off, just as she would be able to do with the airtag.
If airtag location is a sharing is a risk then so are the others that Apple currently provide.
"For example, me and the wife both have our own cars, but we swap at random. She's always losing hers in the house and now I won't be able to find them, only she can. Hope they add this feature."
I'd hate to lose my car in the house...
I'd hate to lose my car in the house...
Don't nitpick now. Sure you can find a few dumbasses who didn't know and made assumptions. But by and large, at least form what I've been seeing reading basically every AirTag thread since they were announced, almost everyone complaining knew you couldn't share them and think that you should be able to. Yes, this specific article quotes a few morons. But read the comments. MOST people understood that ahead of time.
Edit: I mean hell, two of the four quoted people in the article don't say they were expecting it, just that they wish it had it! They could only find two people who were making assumptions out of the dozens, if not hundreds, of people who have complained about it?
Do they even have their full functionality yet? I exchanged AirTags with a co-worker today to test the tracking / lost functionality feature (he was on the other side of the campus in his office approximately 800m away) and we both couldn‘t get any interactivity work for the AirTags.
We could both mark them as lost and we did get a „Found at xyz“ notification after a while, but neither one of us could do any of the advertised NFC scan to interact or identify lost item option in the Find My app to work. How is this supposed to be helpful when you can‘t even get a proactive NFC function to work on a lost AirTag?
We unfortunately couldn‘t get any of our Android co-workers to scan the AirTag via NFC cause we‘re the Apple sheeplet at our places and no one plays nice with our toys, sadly…
I was ready to buy some AirTags until I read this. Kills the deal. Dumb move, Apple.
What the....You want someone to wear an Airtag so you can track their every move? SMH.
When the remote is lost then get on the group chat and whom ever is tracking it can send out a ping and whom every is at the house can find it. Problem solved.
Wrong. If a PERSON is carrying a key it becomes a PERSON tracker by default unless that PERSON loses the key. I have all my family devices on the Find My app so I can see where my kids are because they have their iPhones. Same with my wife, if she is carrying her iPhone I can see where she is. Why not the same for AirTags?
LMAO I thought the same thing when I read that post.
Me & my wife had to swap cars this weekend whilst she did back to back nightshifts in the hospital. All weekends I've been receiving notifications telling me that my wife's Airtag is following me. So bloody frustrating.
I don't think this will change anything as this is the reason Apple don't want folks tracking others without them knowing. Maybe a workaround would be Family sharing having the person accept that the specific tile in question is OK to travel with them.
I don't think this will change anything as this is the reason Apple don't want folks tracking others without them knowing. Maybe a workaround would be Family sharing having the person accept that the specific tile in question is OK to travel with them.
This does seem like a significant omission. Like many others, I hoped to use these to tag items that various family members should be able to track (luggage, keys, etc.). While I certainly would want Apple to request my permission if I am the AirTags owner, that permission should be sufficient. Absent that degree of sharing, I will hold off on these for most of my intended purposes.
Not a huge problem in my household. My wife has one AirTag on her keychain, and one in her purse. I have one on my keychain and one in my backpack. No real need for us to cross-track.
But we have Apple Family Sharing and are perfectly capable of tracking each other iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad and we prefer it that way. So it feels rather silly not being able to track each other AirTags even though we don't have any need for it at this point in time.
But we have Apple Family Sharing and are perfectly capable of tracking each other iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad and we prefer it that way. So it feels rather silly not being able to track each other AirTags even though we don't have any need for it at this point in time.
Because that's stalking. With the Find My feature on the iPhone you have to set that feature up so you can track where your family is. Kids don't have a say in this since you are the parent. Placing an Airtag in someone's bag (an adult of course) without their knowledge or permission is stalking.
I don’t wear a watch and usually leave my phone in the car so that’s easily avoided but I do take my keys everywhere.
As usual, this is heading into a discussion where people fee they have to pick a side to argue.
I purchased airtags in the knowledge that they most likely didn’t allow family sharing. If it did then I would occasionally use it for convenience (ie me being able to check a location for my wife rather than her pick up her phone), but it is a very minor factor for me.
However, I can see why some people would use this more and it has impacted their usage. Some people didn’t order them for this reason. I don’t feel the need to attack anyone who would like this functionality.
Regardless of whether it would be useful to me, I find it a very odd omission. I can’t see any logic to the security argument as location sharing is currently available, so assume that it is most likely something that they decided not to have on release but will follow at a later date.
I purchased airtags in the knowledge that they most likely didn’t allow family sharing. If it did then I would occasionally use it for convenience (ie me being able to check a location for my wife rather than her pick up her phone), but it is a very minor factor for me.
However, I can see why some people would use this more and it has impacted their usage. Some people didn’t order them for this reason. I don’t feel the need to attack anyone who would like this functionality.
Regardless of whether it would be useful to me, I find it a very odd omission. I can’t see any logic to the security argument as location sharing is currently available, so assume that it is most likely something that they decided not to have on release but will follow at a later date.
Why do you need to track her movements? That seems very sinister and controlling to me. I would never do that with my partner.
I bought a 4 pack and while this is news to me along with most all of you, I would simply need to sign into my wife’s iCloud account to find her Air Tags. Assuming I’m signing in from one of her devices for TFA. Not the end of the world.
Let’s face it… if they are important enough to be called significant, they should be trusted enough to tell you where your car keys are, most likely they own half of that $500 car key anyway and they would want it found too.
Let’s face it… if they are important enough to be called significant, they should be trusted enough to tell you where your car keys are, most likely they own half of that $500 car key anyway and they would want it found too.
This is GREAT NEWS!! to me. I was having a little FOMO regarding the Airtag, and I was sort of looking for an application for it in my life. This limitation is telling me that I'll be fine without this product for the time being.
If they do allow location sharing for airtags then it should be voluntary, so in your instance you wouldn’t share it to your family if you didn’t want them to know where your keys are.
I don’t think anyone is suggesting that this should be a feature which doesn’t have an opt out. Personally, I think it should be an opt in (which I think would make it less of a privacy issue than the other devices which from memory automatically opt you in)