Clearly Find My iPhone needs an update. But I wouldn't argue that they should make AirTags less secure because something else is also less secure.
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AirTag Owners Bemoan Inability to Let Others Track Their Items Via Family Sharing
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But that is exactly what people would like to be able to do…go into their Find My settings and share the location of their Airtags with their family. Where is the problem with that? Nothing to do with stalking.
Nor would I.
As I think I have said elsewhere, if Apple believe that sharing airtags is a privacy risk then they need to look at their existing services.
This seems like an obvious use case for AirTags. Hopefully Apple adds this in a future update.
Who said "without their knowledge"? As you see most examples here is about finding items that are easily lost. My wife never knows where her keys are. If she has to call me every time she cannot find her keys because the AirTag is attached to my Apple iD that is useless. She had to allow me to know where her iPhone is so the same should be available for the AirTags.
So, Apple wants users to put multiple AirTags on a single item? As lame as that sounds, it sure seems that way.
You should be able to find your airtags with your iPad or something in case you lost/or got stolen both your phone and item that had your airtag attached to it.
And that is what you do with an iPhone. Heck you can text someone back and tell them where you are. You should put yourself in the position.
Say your husband, wife or GF wants to stick an Airtag in your bag so they can keep track of your every move (Lordy NO, haha) but you may want to stop after work for a drink at a bar but don't want to share that location with your significant other, well you have no choice since the Airtag is telling your significant other that you're over at the bar. You can't even lie and say you worked late. Maybe you wanted to buy that person a gift for their birthday but didn't want that person to know that you went to the mall to buy it. Well thanks to the Airtag that person knows exactly where you were so you can't lie about that either.
I hope you realize everybody wants/needs some "Me Time" and doesn't want anyone to know what they are doing. It's 100% stalking if you put an Airtag on someone.
Although I understand that it's not Apple's (or Tile for that matter) role to supervise children, I find some of the comments funny and obviously from non-parents or from parents of older kids that might not remember how fast those critters can be. You can't be 100% vigilant all the time.
You can be taking a dump while they are napping and you come out and they're playing with mommy's "pink vibrating rocket with a bunny on it"...
You can be taking a dump while they are napping and you come out and they're playing with mommy's "pink vibrating rocket with a bunny on it"...
This prevents people without UWB from being able to use their spouse's phone to find a tag, and gently nudges those with older phones to upgrade.
It's a money grab, pure and simple.
You're 100% off on anything I said. Nothing I stated was against people wanting family sharing. I was replying to someone who wants to use their Airtag to find HUMANS such as their wife, husband or GF. Making them wear an Airtag on their person to find their location IS stalking.
Hoping they push this out as an update so I can family share where the van keys are! We are down to one set!!
Given the outcry and just like with the butterfly keyboard debacle, if the outcry is loud enough, Apple will provide an iOS update that updates the Find My app (amongst other "security fixes and enhancements") to include this feature in the future, without ever mentioning a word out about it....in typical Apple fashion...acknowledge that the problem exists (privately, not publicly), and silently fix it....
It'll probably show up in a future release, since it's an obvious feature...like copy/cut/paste. Must have had problems fitting it into family sharing.
I think you have it backwards…nothing about this setting/options changes anything about the privacy concept of Airtags.
Your example works exactly the same way, with this new feature or without. Someone, in your Family sharing group or not, puts an Airtag in your bag, you get notified. You can ALREADY say "I dont care, it's a family Airtag, so don’t keep reminding me it's there".
This requested feature means that I put MY Airtag in MY bag and I share its location with my significant other. If my significant other puts their Airtag in my bag I still get notified. These two scenarios have nothing to do with one another.
Obviously your post is not serious. With half a second of thought, I can come up with a dozen or more scenarios where THIS EXACT FEATURE would be perfect. Literally ANY shared item. Keys, AppleTv remote, luggage, and on and on.
LMAO you're creating your own functionality for the Airtags that doesn't exist. You're talking about using the Airtag to send your location to someone requesting it. That's not at all what it does. The Airtag is an "Always On" product so the person looking for you always knows where you are.
If the Airtags already had that feature that you're talking about (which is still unnecessary since you have to have an iPhone to use it and the Find My feature is already featured with an iPhone) then there's no debate. You're creating a function that doesn't exist and like I said above it makes no sense to have such a feature since you have an iPhone. Maybe that function would make sense if the Airtags were compatible with non-Apple phones.
You originally replied to someone who was wondering why the Airtag had not yet notified their significant other about the Airtag being on their person. And their significant other knew about the Airtag being there. They were just wondering about the notification feature.
And why should a family not decide to track each other with their Airtags if that’s what they want to do? They can already do that with Airtags right now anyway.
So this has nothing to do with what this article talks about.
I know some parents who are using these to track teenagers vehicles, instead of tracking their phone which was a previous way to do it.
I too am disappointed by this lack of functionality. You'd think Apple would have had this feature ready at launch - they've clearly had these things ready for a few years.
Hopefully they'll come along with an update soon. Family Sharing on car keys, the TV remote, family pets etc are essential.
Hopefully they'll come along with an update soon. Family Sharing on car keys, the TV remote, family pets etc are essential.
Dude, maybe read the original article? It is talking about a requested feature that I can share my Airtags location, whether I have it with me or it’s attached to a key, with Family members. It’s not about someone requesting it’s location or using their Airtags to track someone else.
What use is sharing my iPhone’s location sharing if I attach an Airtag to my dog’s collar and my partner goes for a walk and the dog goes missing. But I am unable to share the Airtag location with them, and am not in the vicinity.
People have items that they attach their Airtags to and that they want their family members to be able to track as well. Simple as that.
Has anyone actually lost anything since buying these? It’s weird people are so obsessed with a product that you can only use in the event of a misplaced item.