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They need to integrate wireless charging into them if they're going to get the bulk down.
What will Australian kids eat if they can't get the button batteries out?

If you have to worry/be concerned about ‘where your car is’ when it’s getting repaired, I’d probably suggest a new repair shop.
I like this. If you have to worry/be concerned about losing your keys/wallet, just don't lose them!
 
I think all the mainstream non-tech press about stalkers misusing them actually helped many people become aware that there is such a product for their legitimate uses.
 
This is a great product IMHO, EXCEPT that you can't share it with family members. It's supremely annoying. Tile has always allowed that... you know you already can see trackers near you so this shouldn't be that hard. C'mon Apple, do what you do and charge us again for a simple feature in V.2
 
I'm not trying to track a dog, but a set of keys? Why can't that be shared in the family? I can see all my kids devices in Find My, what's the difference?
You're not reading. Apple is purposely discouraging the kinds of use that AirTag is NOT for by not allowing family sharing/tracking. Since tracking your keys has no desperate need of being available to your whole family, Apple can easily withhold the feature as a means of mitigating the bigger problem.

If Apple lets your whole family track your keys, you gain a minor feature that you don't need really need. If Apple lets people track any AirTag being used for any purpose across family, they enable and encourage a bunch of use cases that they are actively discouraging in every other way (including this one).
 
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You're not reading. Apple is purposely discouraging the kinds of use that AirTag is NOT for by not allowing family sharing/tracking. Since tracking your keys has no desperate need of being available to your whole family, Apple can easily withhold the feature as a means of mitigating the bigger problem.

If Apple lets your whole family track your keys, you gain a minor feature that you don't need really need. If Apple lets people track any AirTag being used for any purpose across family, they enable and encourage a bunch of use cases that they are actively discouraging in every other way (including this one).
I'm trying to understand your argument I'm just not following. If I have an airtag on a set of my car keys, and they get lost in our home, and I'm away for work, why would that feature not be helpful to my wife who is trying to track down my keys?
 
Wouldn’t the boxes start beeping after a while? That’s probably not a great idea… Your going to cause a lockdown somewhere…
🙄They are not the first Airtag to be shipped or flown on a plane. Many people even use them on their luggage which also works very well.
 
I'm trying to understand your argument I'm just not following. If I have an airtag on a set of my car keys, and they get lost in our home, and I'm away for work, why would that feature not be helpful to my wife who is trying to track down my keys?
No, you're not trying. You're obsessed with your keys, and making it about your keys. You're not reading.
 
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I understand the privacy concerns.

However, I am allowed to track a kid's phone by using "find my". I am not allowed to track their stuff. Now, I need to make sure they carry a phone instead of just telling them to carry their keys if I want to know their wherabouts. Of course, I could sew one of my airtags to their pants, but wouldn't that be more intrusive?

(Just to give a bit of background. I happen to live in a country where kids usually walk to school and roam about the neighbourhood on their own when they are around seven.)
Family sharing should be totally possible. The AirTag is registered to my phone. If my children each have an AirTag in their bag and they have their phones on them, surely, through family sharing and find my, their phones can recognise an encrypted identifier from the air tag. That way, I can see if they get lost when they’re on, say, a school trip to the city for a few days, and they can carry the tag without it having to notify them that they are being stalked. This seems like a no-brainer to me. It requires family sharing, and everybody having their own iPhone, but it works, seems to make sense, and could be implemented, right?
 
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