Disable sound (not creepy!)

[acorntoy]

(2 so far, don’t think I’ll be getting more unless I can fix this) So I recently got some Yip dog tags for the family dogs (5!). Compatible with find my. Problem is with apples limitation only 1 person can register the tag to their device. My parents my brother and I regularly have others/ different dogs at our house for days of time. On my dog it works fine, she’s always around me. On the other (who loves to run away) when she’s not around the master iPhone it’s constantly beeping, sending alerts to the family’s phones that there’s an undetected device but even worse physically making a sound annoying us and flipping the poor dog out. She needs the device the most but it is constantly beeping, even waking her up while sleeping. Can I shut this thing up in a setting? It makes me really sad as she would benefit from this most but I’m not sure it’s a viable option anymore. She can open (locked) doors so it’s almost impossible to keep her put.

Im honestly wondering if a sound disabled AirTag would be best for her but at the same time I don’t want to buy from a creep account on eBay.

 

[fischersd]

There's lots of videos on YouTube showing you how to remove the speaker yourself.

No, you really can't disable Apple's "anti stalking" features, nor share tags (yet). Family sharing has been on a number of peoples' wish lists ever since they were launched. Quite surprised Apple hasn't implemented it yet.

 

[macguru212]

I'm with on not being able to share an AirTag - we should be able to do this the same way we share locations. Because of this I had to buy double the tags - two for one car, two for the one pet, etc... I think Apple planned it this way for sales. ?

 

[acorntoy]

I'm with on not being able to share an AirTag - we should be able to do this the same way we share locations. Because of this I had to buy double the tags - two for one car, two for the one pet, etc... I think Apple planned it this way for sales. ?

Sadly with the way my family rotates dogs so often it seems like a no go for now My dog bolted away while doing her business today and I found her by ringing the collar so it does work. Would love to see Apple expand but with all the negative publicity I’m worried they’re just gonna kill the products.

There's lots of videos on YouTube showing you how to remove the speaker yourself.

No, you really can't disable Apple's "anti stalking" features, nor share tags (yet). Family sharing has been on a number of peoples' wish lists ever since they were launched. Quite surprised Apple hasn't implemented it yet.

I’ve thought about it and even that kind of defeats the point, since a beeping collar would be a great way to attract attention to the tag. Sadly I think I have to pass on using it on most of the dogs until Apple fixes this.

This is a ”d’oh!” because I probably should have known this but this is a serious flaw of find my at the moment.

 

[deeddawg]

This is a ”d’oh!” because I probably should have known this but this is a serious flaw of find my at the moment.

To be fair, it is named Find My not Find Our...

Seems Apple intended this/these for individual usage in locating misplaced stuff like keys or purse or bookbag.

Folks chose to use them in myriad ways not originally intended/envisioned, such as your usage with dogs who move around between family members. That they don't work as well for unintended use cases isn't exactly a flaw though.

Hopefully Apple will implement a form of family-sharing for them in the near future as it is certainly something folks would find useful.

 

[Cruncher]

Last November my Airline lost one of my bags and it was never found until today. I didn`t used an Airtag.
Now in April I am flying to Asia again and I thought of using an Airtag for each Bag but without sound. I don`t want that the Airtags sound when they are loading and unloading the bags.

I followed this Video for removing the Speaker: