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iOS 13 Code Has References to Apple's Rumored Tile-Like Item Tracker Accessory
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Why? They will still be cheaper. And there's still the vast Android market.
Most people want to disconnect from the current WiFi and Bluetooth, not turn them off indefinitely, which is what Control Center now does. Easy to turn them off completely from Settings.
Lose a 4-year old child at Chicago O'Hare Airport for an hour and then we can have a conversation about whether child leashes should exist or not.
Im game if it allows you to change the batteries in it. This is the only thing I hate about Tile.
How about looking at this as a means of mapping ones space for someone who needs assistance.
If you are blind you have to remember where things are spatially. But, if you just lost your eyesight this could help!
Or, how about an elderly person who still lives in their home. As a son knowing my parent is not moving about would be helpful so I could call on them or get someone to check on them.
Or, how about someone with alzheimer's or other limitation having a way to know they have left the geo fenced area so someone can check on them would be very useful too!
If you are blind you have to remember where things are spatially. But, if you just lost your eyesight this could help!
Or, how about an elderly person who still lives in their home. As a son knowing my parent is not moving about would be helpful so I could call on them or get someone to check on them.
Or, how about someone with alzheimer's or other limitation having a way to know they have left the geo fenced area so someone can check on them would be very useful too!
They have a new version (newish) that has replaceable batteries/
https://www.thetileapp.com/en-us/pr...MIsd6LoqHQ4gIVB7XACh0qwwnREAAYASAAEgKAOfD_BwE
YES! What would be nice is if it could use ANY (yours or strangers) iPhone in proximity as a way to connect so you can find it. Otherwise you need to be next to the thing that you lost... If I knew where it was I wouldn't be looking. LOL
It could be promising and it has my attentions depending on cost and how they do it.
Right now I love tile. I have 1 on each of my keys and 1 on my wallet. I sadly use them way to often to make noise to find both my phone or my phone to find the other device.
I also find it very helpful to log in and see where I left them. Like for example getting home and trying to find my wallet. Pull it up and last known location was work or more common I get to work and I use it to see if I left my wallet in my car as it does show good enough to see where I left it like that.
Right now I love tile. I have 1 on each of my keys and 1 on my wallet. I sadly use them way to often to make noise to find both my phone or my phone to find the other device.
I also find it very helpful to log in and see where I left them. Like for example getting home and trying to find my wallet. Pull it up and last known location was work or more common I get to work and I use it to see if I left my wallet in my car as it does show good enough to see where I left it like that.
Is there no law in your municipality from having a pet roam freely without supervision.
Not to respond to Tile directly - they are fine and good as any - but overall, this is what I see after having tested 4 or 5 brands of BT Trackers - a fair number of them:
OH - the glaring one relates to anonymity and privacy, which is why NONE of the tracker companies have yet found a way to the huge theoretical market. Apple has to create the real market. Only Apple is positioned to create the market - because privacy.
Depending on where your item happens to be, there are no group sourced fellow customers who are allowing it to track your item. The usual "drains my phone battery" is perhaps the rumour that stops folks from running the Tile and TrackR stuff. This functionality is ideal to run in the OS - encrypted and anonymous and private.
However, across all the makers, I think battery life is STILL the big issue. You want a tiny tracker, but the battery lasts a month or so if you are lucky, and you lose your keys just after the tracker device battery is drained
. Seriously.If try to use a dozen trackers for your bike, wallet, jacket, bag, TV remote etc etc. It will work as good as it can with the bad app interface - enough to find your item maybe. But a year forward and I would bet that most are dead batteries and the customer doesn't even care to replace the batteries on all of them. Maybe one or two essential ones you'll replace the battery for, but you really would have to be diligent to change a dozen batteries. I didn't, and I've even made stuff like this.
I was an early adopter for all this stuff, and perhaps advances have been made that I am not aware of. I think I saw TrackR or whatever said they had some New and Improved battery blah blah. It didn't really make a difference in my testing.
For a bicycle, it's worth it to have more than one tracker on board and change the batteries. But for my raincoat - blah - I put one in the pocket on a trip because I often forget my coat, and this one of course has a dead battery and I don't care enough to replace it right now.
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Thanks for your response.
Exactly what privacy issues are there? No one can identify me from my tracker device. Tile doesn't sell data.
Battery life in the Tile is 12 months, even with the newer replaceable models. If people are quite happy to charge their Apple Watch, iPhones on a daily basis, they shouldn't complain about having to change battery every 12 months.
Exactly what privacy issues are there? No one can identify me from my tracker device. Tile doesn't sell data.
Battery life in the Tile is 12 months, even with the newer replaceable models. If people are quite happy to charge their Apple Watch, iPhones on a daily basis, they shouldn't complain about having to change battery every 12 months.
Not to respond to Tile directly - they are fine and good as any - but overall, this is what I see after having tested 4 or 5 brands of BT Trackers - a fair number of them:
However, across all the makers, I think battery life is STILL the big issue. You want a tiny tracker, but the battery lasts a month or so if you are lucky, and you lose your keys just after the tracker device battery is drained
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The Find My Mac additions they announced at WWDC yesterday indicate Apple is already heading int his direction. Not only will a Macbook ping its location when off but it'll also create a mesh-like relay network when other compatible Apple devices are nearby as well, similar to how Tile works.
I wonder if it will work on Cats!
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Very insightful thinking!
they have fix that for the basic tile and the extended range one. The wallet one you can not replace any more.
I personally would recomend the long range one as its case is a little better so it can handle being used longer.
Looking forward to losing my wallet with $200 cash and a $300 Apple tracker inside