I think AirTags will have the U1 chip in them, which will probably help giving an exact location.
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What do you mean “nope?”
UWB is certainly not useless. Think about how this works. What you see on your ”find my“ app is the LAST REPORTED lcoation of your missing item. You come to my house and leave your widget in my seat cushions. You leave. You go home. You go into the find my app and ask for a location.
My phone, using GPS, knows what house I am in. Using Bluetooth and UWB it knows exactly where your item is - in my seat cushions. It reports the exact location on Apple’s “find my network” and your phone can display it.
You seem to think the missing object has to be within direct radio contact with the missing item, but that’s silly.
They don’t call him prosser the tosser for nothing.Can’t wait to see another PROSSER fail prediction this month when Airtags don’t come out
Consider how long it took Apple to enable ultra wideband handoff feature on HomePod mini. It was super buggy during the betas.
Which has absolutely nothing to do with airtags, which were what the claimed fiasco was.
Right so it’s looking as though AirTags are coming in the March event then... or they are definitely imminent.
Has been explained a thousand times.
there needs to A A phone close to act as hub. The tag itself has no intelligence or capability other than special awareness bluetooth.
Surely the phone will be pinging the device occasionally and recording the phones GPS location when it gets a response. If it suddenly doesn’t get a response it will look up the gps location of last known contact, direct you to that and then use uwb for the final few meters?
No, I think Apple will open it up without really opening it up. If you know what I mean.
It's like those free to play games.
I don't know. Bluetooth? It happened shortly after I bought them. I'm glad I was able to find it. It narrowed down the location.
Yeah, that's weird. I thought it looked for the case only. Glad you found it though!
Let’s quickly file that under innovation before your next rant.
It's a feature. Yeah, I was too. Having to replace them so soon made it just so bad. I don't wear them riding outside, not that I've ridden outside much anyway.
That's quite brilliant. I did not know about this.
If you need to find only one AirPod or AirPod Pro
If your AirPods or AirPods Pro are separated from each other, you see only one location at a time on the map. Find the AirPod or AirPod Pro that you see on the map and put it in its case. Then refresh the map and find the other one.
What’s with all the speculation? Apple has said exactly what they are going to do, and the documentation is on their developer website.
I was happy with it... They seem to think of everything. I mean, the Air Pod already has a connection to your iPhone/iPad. Why not use that connection to find the little buggers. My wife lost her iPhone, and was seriously headed out the door to buy a new one when I told her to log in with her AppleID and use the 'Find My feature. It showed a remote location that she was at earlier in the day, so we trekked out there, and it was accurate within about 20 feet. Found the iPhone, it was on its face, and the sound was turned down, but in the dark, we found it. So cool...