From the article: "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."
To be precise, location sharing isn’t required with Family Sharing.
Nah man, just buy two of everything to fix an obvious oversight by Apple. By giving them twice the money, I prove I'm twice the Apple "fan" (cringe) as others!
Exactly. People assumed that they would be able to take their Airtag, attach it to something their whole Family would benefit from tracking and share the Airtags location in Family sharing. It’s possible with alot of other Apple devices, so it seems unfortunate that the one device actually made for tracking doesn’t offer this capability if enabled by the user.
A choice that apparently alot of people would like to have with their Airtags as well.
Nope!! The airtags pro will include the hole. The airtags Max will be shareable with family. If you want both the “features” in one device you’ll have to buy the Airtags Pro Max Turbo. Each one of them released with months of interval in between so we can buy all of them
Why would that stop you, they could give you the code if they have their phone and if they don’t have the code sent to a different device or a different way. We’re talking about someone who is in your family or whom you know that you would be assisting not someone who’s AirTag you should be able to gain access to unbeknownst to them-that shouldn’t be allowed.
I'm only responding to your post because you keep denying that I wasn't reading the article and I'm making something up about stalking. See below, this is where I responded to a member who wanted to use the Airtag to track people. I never argued that family sharing (for lost items) shouldn't exist. Stop say that I am because I never said that.
Yes, my brother in law. He's autistic and frequently loses his wallet. I bought him an AirTag for it, he activated it on his phone under his account, and when he lost his wallet over the weekend he was able to find it. If that's your only goal (finding personal items), they work great! If you'd also like to be able to find shared items, that's where the disconnect is.
Yeah, ever thought about why that person can see their wife’s iPhone? Because she enabled location sharing for it. So why is it suddenly stalking if she enables location sharing for the Airtag on her keychain for her husband?
Yes, she probably did. I don’t recall us ever saying to share all of our other devices as well, but maybe we did.
Well I certainly waited to see the reviews (which this article is one of them) before buying. Others could too. This is not a product required by law. Centuries people got along without Airtags. Nobody has to buy these things the very second they hit the streets.
Again reading internet reviews would've saved you, especially for such a function that's not a common feature found on washers. There is bound to be people who bought one talking about the Mp3 function...such as you right now. 😁
There's no real reason to use an Airtag to share a location to where a person is since it requires the use of an iPhone in the first place to operate the Airtag and the iPhone itself has that same feature. We're done here. Have a good day.
I think that‘s only partially true. My dad has his location sharing disabled but there is still the devices tab that has all of his Apple devices visible and trackable
In the quote you provided earlier, they are simply comparing the feature to what is already available with other iOS devices. They are saying "if I can share my iPhone, iPad, Macbook and iMac location. Why not my Airpod location?"
Same. I bought a 4 pack to try them out, and had plans to buy 8 more. Now, I did know in advance that sharing isn't an option yet, but that doesn't change the fact that I will not be buying those 8 more until they can easily be shared in a way that allows anyone I invite to locate them, not just the people on my family sharing.
Yes it surprised me to the weather designed they had to figure out someway to apply privacy to the process what's more irritating is that they don't give you an exact location on a map they give you a circle and then from there you have to use your device you set them up with to locate them via a direction feature or sound so for some reason you left them at a friends house you wouldn't know you would have to go to that area and then slowly using your phone and try to find them at least that's the way it looks to me I've tried it and that's kind of how it works which is sad but it's a fun little toy nevertheless.
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.
Article Link: AirTag Owners Bemoan Inability to Let Others Track Their Items Via Family Sharing
I bought 8 of these. This has been the biggest disappointment with AirTags. Apple HAS to implement this feature in iOS 15 or this is going to be a dead product for a lot of people. Privacy is BS, you can track people's devices in a family, no issues. I event felt compelled enough to send an email to Tim Cook on launch day. (tcook@apple.com) I'd let him know you want this too.
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.
Article Link: AirTag Owners Bemoan Inability to Let Others Track Their Items Via Family Sharing
That is odd, since afaik it should really only show the devices, not their location, if sharing is disabled. At least that is the way it works for me.
