Review: Using Apple’s AirTag for tracking checked airline baggage

[MartinOmartin]

A hands-on review of the AirTag in an airport environment.

“Can you use Apple’s AirTag to track checked luggage as it arrives on the baggage claim carousel? We AirTagged some bags and headed to the airport to find out…”

Review: using Apple’s AirTag for tracking checked luggage

Could Apple’s AirTags be the hottest travel accessory since noise-cancelling headphones? We headed to the airport to find out.

www.executivetraveller.com

The summary: nope, doesn’t work, the baggage belt is moving too fast for your iPhone to acquire ‘target lock’ on the AirTag. But good to see a first-hand test of this!

 

[parseckadet]

Glad someone wrote this up. And their scenario where the bag is not on the carrousel, but in an office instead, is the exact one that I’ve had in mind. Glad to have confirmation that it will work for that.

 

[FreAk6767]

I’m not questioning the review/test linked above, but when you look at the screenshots it looks like the iPhone was in save battery mode (or whatever it’s called in English, yellow battery icon)
Would that, affect the Bluetooth tracking accuracy to find the airtags?
Just wondering

 

[michaelb5000]

I rarely fly with lots of baggage and gear, but we took a ski trip last year, which involved flying with 4 oversized ski bags. I was definitely stressed worrying about whether they got packed on the plane and would they be there when we landed. If they had been delayed, each day would have potentially wasted 100s of dollars in lift ticket value. So being able to track bags at the beginning of the flight, and when waiting after arrival, will be very nice.

 

[xenoako]

Of course there are scenarios where the AirTags can play a vital role with checked luggage, but the Delta Airline App, and I assume many others, tells one when the checked luggage us on the aircraft, when it is transferred to another aircraft, and when it is overloaded.