AirTag reviews by former Tile users

[OCS12]

I’ve had four AirTags for about a month now. All I get are notifications that they are left behind. My wife has an iPhone yet it does not give her location and it says it still at home when she’s at work. She has an iPhone and the AirTag is paired with my Apple ID so why isn’t it using her iPhone to give location? In Apple community there’s a lot of discussion about AirTags not updating locations and pretty much worthless so far in my experience. It ought to give their AirTags location instantly since she hasn’t iPhone 11 Pro Max with unlimited data. Disappointed, Seth

It sounds like all your issues are related to settings in her phone as well as your own airtag settings. If her phone is always showing up as home regardless of her location, I'm guessing she has the "find my" network disabled on the phone. This would also stop it from relaying the airtag signal.

As far as the left behind notifications, you can adjust those, add trusted locations, or turn them off in the find my app as well.

 

[deeddawg]

Agreed - the core issue is likely related to settings in her phone.

@Zephar77 what is shown on her phone under Settings->AppleID->FindMy->FindMyiPhone?

See https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210400

 

[fischersd]

...and Bluetooth. The AirTags only have 2 wireless protocols that they support - Bluetooth and UWB (for precision finding). If her bluetooth isn't turned on, her phone won't "ping" the AirTag.

 

[flynz4]

I was also a long time Tile user. I liked the original sealed units. Later I bought Tile Pros with replaceable batteries. They were louder, bit they were notorious for going off in my pocket. The button was too hair-trigger sensitive.

My wife and I now use AirTags. I won’t go back to Tile

 

[Diablo360]

I also made the switch to Air tags and will use them from now on. Not even a chance I’ll be going back