How often are you expecting to charge these things?!
If it’s anything more often than around a month, I’m not sure they’ll be worth the hassle
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AirTags Said to Be 'Completely Waterproof' and Use Magnetic Charging Like Apple Watch
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How often are you expecting to charge these things?!
If it’s anything more often than around a month, I’m not sure they’ll be worth the hassle
If they were curved the same as the AW charger, but smaller in diameter, then you could still use the AW charger AND have smaller tags. Plus I like the idea of them being magnetic as there’s less chance of dropping/losing one while charging.
Sounds great for finding a stolen bike, but what's to prevent a stalker from hiding an air tile on someones car? Or drop it in their purse? The police could as well. No need for costly gps systems with batteries that need to be replaced after a couple weeks. Just wait for someone with an iPhone to walk by.
I believe the success of these will relate to the price. Make these 3/$50. You’ll sell millions upon millions. Make them $50. Not so much.
tske HomePod. $349. Way over priced. Don’t sell too well
At $199. They sell out at most stores.
Apple is a service company now. These items should be sold as inexpensive as possible. Sell as many as possible. Draw people into the EcoSystem. Then they use them services.
tske HomePod. $349. Way over priced. Don’t sell too well
At $199. They sell out at most stores.
Apple is a service company now. These items should be sold as inexpensive as possible. Sell as many as possible. Draw people into the EcoSystem. Then they use them services.
Yeah, I meant that as a joke towards almost all of their other products. The CR2032's in our Tiles don't quite last a year, but unless there is some unique or new feature I don't see us switching.
I disagree. Magnetic charging is better. I can't count the number of times I've woken up to my phone not fully charged because I missed the wireless charging placement by 1 mm.
well, the real advantage would be the size of the ios community vs. the tile community. when i learned about tiles years ago, i almost got them until i realized that if i were to, say, leave my wallet in a cab – i would be at the mercy of other tile owners, which just didn't seem enough. now if we expand that to ios devices – that's a horse of a different color!
I get that counter-point against Tile, however, in real-world usage we have only needed them within our own home or cars to locate items that have fallen out of pockets (keys, wallets). Our use-case may not be anything like others use-cases. I started using Tile's after my better half had a string of leaving things behind (everything recovered thankfully); and then after I Tile'd us up we didn't misplace anything for not quite a year. Luckily the batteries were still good.
It's going to work the same way other "Find My" devices works now. It uses the bluetooth of any strangers nearby with an Apple product.
right around the time i learned about tiles, i had two instances of dropping my keys(once in the street and once in a store) 'cause i had this pair of pants with unfortunate pockets) but i assumed that tiles had gps capability, which they obvs do not... so doing all this, using ios users as checkpoints, seems a little more exciting. not that i really need these, but hey)
you can do that already with maps on iPhone
Get directions to your parked car in Maps on iPhone
In Maps on iPhone, find your parked car.
you can do that already with maps on iPhone
Get directions to your parked car in Maps on iPhone
In Maps on iPhone, find your parked car.support.apple.com
Annoyingly, it only works if you have Siri Hands-Free or Carplay (the latter of which only if you bothered to plug it in).
actually no, it works over bluetooth to.
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if they use the same charger as Apple Watch, they should make it a power bank... then you would just need to grab the charger and stick it to the tag for an hour or two. ie no need to remove the tag from whatever you put it on, your bike or scooter or whatever.
Whatever the charger is, it needs to be mobile and able to go into tight spaces. I'm just thinking someone who put a tag on, say, a bike. They're obviously not going to want to bring that inside to charge on an Apple Watch charger. But then again I guess it depends on how these things would attach.
No it doesn't. Apple only whitelists approved car Bluetooth devices, which, as I said, are compatible with Siri Hands-Free.
My car isn't on a special white list nor do I have hands free connected and I use the find my car feature all the time. All you have to have is a Bluetooth connection with your radio. The same connection that allows you to play Apple Music or Spotify over your car speakers.
If you’re having trouble setting it up go over all the settings because if you don’t have the correct settings it won’t work.
Nope. I have multiple car bluetooth standalone and have older cars with integrated Bluetooth and they've never worked. There's an Apple whitelist. None of what you said disproves this.
On the other hand, new setups with Siri Eyes Free and Carplay always work, so it's not a settings issue.
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If there is a custom charger they would likely sell it with and without the charger.
I must be the only one wondering why they require charging. The Tile on my wife's car keys is still going strong over 2 years later. For $25 or less, I'm perfectly happy disposing of it when it dies and buying the current tech.
Battery life is the only thing I really care...... i hope it works at least 2 weeks once fully charged.....
