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The main purpose of AirTags is to track people who you care?
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You can do that, but it’s more for tracking items you seem to lose a lot, for example if you lose your car keys or your wallet, the AirTag will help you find it. You can find out more about the airtags on apple’s website: https://www.apple.com/airtag/
Reduce the amount of time I spend wondering where my wallet and keys are when needed and misplaced. One in my checked in airplane luggage too, just in case.
I don't carry coins anymore, although living in a country where the largest coined denomination is equivalent to 5$ I do prefer keeping a regular wallet.
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Chipolo just released a tracker that's the size of about 3 credit cards stacked and uses the find my network. It does not have precision finding, but it does play a sound.
Honestly it is not cheap at all, it only makes sense to track something very important.
The thing it tracking might not be of particular value however it could be solution to a frustration. Its cheap for something that makes your life easy.
For example. Me aka big brain bought a black Samsonite suit case and after flying across the country then stood at the wrong luggage conveyor (its 3am btw) picking up black Samsonite suit cases that weren't mine just to have people freak out on me for borderline domestic terrorism. In that scenario an AirTag would would have been a god send. Or a bright handkerchief tide around the handle.
I carry a backpack a lot although I haven't found it particularly help. I'm careful I don't lose things. I might stick it in my laptop bag but its a MacBook so its tracking its location too.
I don't understand the checked luggage use - doesn't the tag start to ping audibly when out of range?
Luggage handle wraps are very handy for knowing which bag is yours as it circles the luggage carousel...
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Plenty of better and inexpensive devices to do that which never alert anyone.
Search Amazon or eBay for “GPS cellular tracker”. Exact location, no dependency on Apple FindMy network, never alerts anyone regardless of what phone they have.
Even better is you never need to locate the item anymore now that you have a way to find it