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Apple Executive Says AirTags Designed to Track Items, Not Children or Pets
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What’s stoppign someone from walking around and turning off random airtags?
Apple Executive says AirTags are not designed to track pets...but doesn't say that they can't. Besides, since when have we as humans ever used something only for it's intended purpose?
I can't be the only person using my microwave oven to dry clothes, can I?
I can't be the only person using my microwave oven to dry clothes, can I?
I need to track my AppleTV remotes which Apple failed to include a cheap U1 chip in it when people have been clamoring for it for ages because the damn remotes are so easy to lose. But the fail is there’s no way to attach an Apple Tag to the remote. Apple response of we just made the remote a little thicker is kind of an FU. They can think up all the ridiculous scenarios for misuse of tracking but they can’t think up obvious uses for their own products that need the find my network.
So if you work in a busy office and you have it on your key chain to track it. It is going to beep on everybody's phones around you?
Yea, you should never start your own (tech) company.
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And a fair number of people in this topic REALLY need to go to the offical page and actually read the information present there.
Also there's some 'preview' vids online on youtube aswell with some basic but important information.
Also common sense. Use it.
My only complaint is the expensive accessories, but no suprise there. €1-5 alternatives are already available online.
Apple should hire me.Yea, you should never start your own (tech) company.
Wait, what! I can't use it to find my car or bike in the parking lot or something other that I don't carry around with me?
Luggage on air travel, expensive shipments, company cars, ...
I will have to look into that before I buy.
Luggage on air travel, expensive shipments, company cars, ...
I will have to look into that before I buy.
I don’t know if it’s two minutes but it does alert when it’s leaving where you are.
If it’s hidden how can the thief find it? Oh yea because it sets off an alert telling them where it is...
It won’t beep when the owner is nearby unless they activate lost mode
AirTags are designed for finding lost items not preventing theft. For preventing theft use a chain, a lock, or common sense.
One thing I can't find an answer on is, how does it work with shared items. For example, we have a set of keys for things around the house (i.e., the back door, the shed, etc). They aren't one person's item.
I have family sharing turned on, so all of the apple devices everyone in the family owns show up in the Find My app. Will the tags work the same way? In other words, if I register the tag attached to the back door keys, will my other family members be able to locate them with their iPhones? Or will they have to ask me to do it?
I have family sharing turned on, so all of the apple devices everyone in the family owns show up in the Find My app. Will the tags work the same way? In other words, if I register the tag attached to the back door keys, will my other family members be able to locate them with their iPhones? Or will they have to ask me to do it?
No way I'm spending $300 on my kids to track them. We had to sit them down and have the "Mommy and Daddy aren't going to pay that kind of money on you guys, so... don't get lost or kid napped". I think they understood. /s
Joking aside, you already don't need them to have an iPhone, you can set up the watch with your iPhone.
Have Apple explicitly said that though? I think we're all, quite reasonably, inferring it given how bad at tracking stolen items these tags would be, but it's odd that one of the questions to Apple wasn't "so what about tracking stolen things?" so that we can hear their rationale in their own words.