Eufy Launches Cheaper AirTag Alternative With Find My App Support

[svish]

Seems like a really good alternative.

 

[realeric]

Do you guys buy Chinese location tracker to save couple dollars? Jesus. Eufy is owned by Anker. Anker is located in Hunan, China.

 

[tayshumway]

The one thing holding me back from having any interest in AirTags is the fact they can only be tracked by one user. Makes it pretty useless in a family context if I can track our kid's backpack or a piece of luggage or something, but my wife can't. If they ever get their act together and make Find My work better with Family Sharing, I'd definitely be interested.

It seems to me that this means that multiple people can see where the tracker is.

• Share with Friends and Family: With the eufy Security app you can let others know the location of your items too.

I suppose it could mean that you can send a one-time location to another person, but I’m hoping it means that multiple people can have full access to the location at all times.

 

[patsio]

Available only in US market?! Cannot find it in https://eu.eufy.com/

 

[d686546s]

This.

example : If one of my teenage children goes to London on a school trip for the weekend and let's say they get broken off from the group, lose their phone/bag/selves and I need to know where they are, a shared AirTag on their person would be helpful.

Apple might think that examples like this are tenuous but the safety of my children comes first to me.

Would your teenage children agree to wear a tracker that allows their parent to see where they are at all times? I know I would have definitely always forgotten that thing somewhere.

In some ways I'm really happy that the only find my network my mom had access to was our neighbours and that network didn't extend very far.

 

[ignatius345]

You can always make up "scenarios" to justify any argument, but it is far more likely (and much easier to execute) for an abusive spouse to slip a previously unknown AirTag to track his/her partner than to use a family shared AirTag. This ain't a Hollywood movie.

If a product feature cannot be released simply because it *can* be used in a malicious way, we will be back in the Stone Age.

Also, there's a new Safety Check feature specifically set up for domestic abuse. If AirTags were shared with an abusive partner that was on a Family Sharing plan, part of that process could include the victim auditing and removing those.

I think it's a good thing that these kinds of scenarios are being considered, and that there are safeguards put into place on shared tech.

 

[cepenpark]

Available only in US market?! Cannot find it in https://eu.eufy.com/

Asked them when it's coming to UK and they said by end November, but no price yet

 

[ignatius345]

Would your teenage children agree to wear a tracker that allows their parent to see where they are at all times? I know I would have definitely always forgotten that thing somewhere.

LOL I would have too. And thank god the only level of tracking we had was to get yelled at if we were caught in the wrong place or got home too late.

But if today's parents are dead set on tracking their kids, an AirTag is a pretty lame way to do it when they could just use the one device they absolutely won't leave behind on purpose: their phone.

 

[ignatius345]

It seems to me that this means that multiple people can see where the tracker is.

• Share with Friends and Family: With the eufy Security app you can let others know the location of your items too.

I suppose it could mean that you can send a one-time location to another person, but I’m hoping it means that multiple people can have full access to the location at all times.

I was talking about AirTags.

if this isn't true real-time location sharing it's pretty useless, but we'll see! I also am not so keen on the Eufy lacking that ultra wide-band support that lets you track down to a few feet.

 

[GeneralChang]

You can always make up "scenarios" to justify any argument, but it is far more likely (and much easier to execute) for an abusive spouse to slip a previously unknown AirTag to track his/her partner than to use a family shared AirTag. This ain't a Hollywood movie.

If a product feature cannot be released simply because it *can* be used in a malicious way, we will be back in the Stone Age.

If they slipped a non-trusted AirTag into a bag, whether registered to a burner ID like you suggested earlier (which is a ton of extra overhead in and of itself) or simply not yet shared with the family (depends on AirTag family sharing implementation) then the person they're trying to track would be warned about it on their own device. Seems to me like that would be significantly harder to do incognito than use a supposedly friendly tracker registered to the family.

I'm hardly arguing in favor of Apple's omission of family sharing for AirTags, to be clear, I just think you're being a little overly dismissive of the possible risks that feature represents to people in different situations than you. Having lived through a few periods of my life that Hollywood would most likely reject as a script for being too unrealistic, I'm gonna just have to disagree on what qualifies as a plausible scenario here.

 

[name99]

The Apple AirTag leather keyring costs more than an AirTag. Not to mention the Hermes one.

Or you can go to AMZ and buy something very cheap...

But yes yes, we know, like the average modern human you DEFINE yourself by your complaints, and far prefer to complain indefinitely than ever solve a problem.
"One Engineer Is Worth Fifty Revolutionaries".

 

[hkeely]

Update: Looks like there was extremely high demand. The coupon code is no longer offered.

"Due to high demand we are experiencing a delay in shipping. Orders placed after the early of November are expected to be shipped around the end of December."

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