Watch: AirTag Unboxing Videos and First Impressions

[SBlue1]

And that is the problem. It's the same people all the time who get the product. Give me some unbiased feedback on the product. I am likely buying a four pack tomorrow, but would like to know strengths, weaknesses etc before I buy. Not an "unboxing" by a youtube "personality" that I do not trust because they make their living saying nice things about Apple.

Marques Brownlee is pretty good in my opinion. He tells you what he likes and what he hates. Sounds honest. I also like Snazzy Labs. Very honest and real. On the other side of the spectrum there are real puppets like iJustine who is all "oooooh" and "wooohooo look how pretty" and never says anything negative.

 

[DotCom2]

Not going to watch all the videos, did anyone of these reviewers actually have someone take a airbag into the city and they found them?

Yes.

 

[ELman]

How about a video using an older iPhone without the U1 chip.

 

[interessiert]

... to be put in a row with other fancy senseless features like Touch Bar, taken away of MagSafe and Esc from Mac Book Pro, LaunchPad.app, sockets on the back side of iMacs (instead of aside), butterfly keyboards with less lifting, backside of glass (iPhones), corona app assistance, (big and expensive) HomePod ...

Keeps brains away from daily training – for what?

Apple has difficulties to concentrate to the essentials, sometimes...

Better to improve MAIL (with a huge quantity of BUGs) and FINDER (search is still weaker than in times of Snow Leopard) – thanks

 

[Dappledan]

Wow. Lots of triggered people on here that can’t afford 29.99. That’s fine if you don’t like it but then cry how YouTube’s get it. Don’t need it don’t buy it

 

[choreo]

Finally, a way for Cartels to tap in to the vast Apple network to help locate their missing drugs!

 

[MrMojo1]

So many negatives on a product not even released to the general public yet.
If you don't like or want it, so be it.

Go get the 4 pack.
Put one in the car. In large parking lots, it's hard to remember sometimes where you park your vehicle esp. if your vehicle has a popular color (i.e. black, silver, white) and the parking lot is full of those colors. At night, it's harder to find your vehicle. Hopefully, the Airtag should help find the vehicle easier and quicker.
Put one on the keychain. Not everyone remembers where they place their keys even though you try to keep it in a similar spot at home at all times. Sometimes you forget and leave it in a pocket somewhere or it falls between something.

Typical Apple.. make the accessory expensive as heck until more 3rd party accessories are introduced later with affordable prices.

 

[katbel]

It could be a good idea if you lost your car keys too..😉

 

[docbop]

Too big and too thick to be convenient to use, but Apple Marketing says we can sell you accessories for your accessory. Plus all the Airtag accessories seem to have that big button to hold it in that looks like it could be easily opened when shoving whatever the tag is into where it's going to sit. Maybe if it was thinner like a tile.<grin> Plus criminals can easily see the Airtag, open up the button remove the Airtag and throw it in the trash. So what the Airtag is on is stolen and the Airtag on it's way to the trash dump. Oh can take your friends Airtag off their loved <fill in the blank> and hide the <fill in the blank>. Now take the Airtag on a joy ride around town. You friend goes no crazy driving all over to track down their beloved <fill in the blank> while you laugh your butt off. Oh a detective tool. Think your spouse is cheating on you, slip a Airtag into their pocket or ??? when they go out. Now you can track them down. Maybe Airtag might have worthwhile uses Apple hasn't thought of.

Now the one use if they'll work this way is leave an Airtag in my car so I can find where I parked my car. But I bet they don't work well inside a parking structure.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I was planning on putting one in my wallet. I now see that won't be possible and I refuse to carry a man purse. lol Maybe a credit card version will be released later on.

 

[Doctor Q]

Marques Brownlee is pretty good in my opinion. He tells you what he likes and what he hates. Sounds honest. I also like Snazzy Labs. Very honest and real. On the other side of the spectrum there are real puppets like iJustine who is all "oooooh" and "wooohooo look how pretty" and never says anything negative.

He said that he'd want somebody who found his backpack to see the AirTag, presumably so they'd know to use it to get his contact information and let him know that they found his backpack. But wouldn't putting his phone number on a visible luggage tag accomplish that too, and work even for people who don't know what an AirTag is? It seems that the AirTag might as well be inside the backpack.

 

[Nismo73]

Do I really need an advanced piece of technology to remember where I left my backpack? Really?

If I was traveling I would hide an airtag in my backpack.

 

[Apple_Robert]

He said that he'd want somebody who found his backpack to see the AirTag, presumably so they'd know to use it to get his contact information and let him know that they found his backpack. But wouldn't putting his phone number on a visible luggage tag accomplish that too, and work even for people who don't know what an AirTag is? It seems that the AirTag might as well be inside the backpack.

I would definitely put the AirTag inside a backpack or suitcase. Too easy to magically disappear otherwise.

 

[Idec50]

Well, I’ve lost my AirPod pros in my house recently. It would be great if apple built/baked one of these into the airpod cases in the future.

Those are shown on Find My ... Hmmm maybe they will start charger for Find My as a monthly "service" - now we are talkin'.

 

[Idec50]

Better to improve MAIL (with a huge quantity of BUGs) and FINDER (search is still weaker than in times of Snow Leopard) – thanks

Given Apple's growing propensity to sell multiple devices with differing form factors with the same internals, only being differentiated by software and screen (while conveniently making external monitor rendering and ease of use worse) ...

I expect they could do this but as a new "iMail" device. It would be a dedicated email* reader device with improved email software and syncing capabilities with other apple devices. The screen could be the size of a regular letter, and you can unfold the device like a unfolding letter into a full A4 paper size. It could use an e-ink* display. You can type emails with a connected iMac with Apple Keyboard, but when you send them, they are "sent" from the connected device. There is a clever animation. It has the M1 processor.

* apple mail with apple ink display

 

[bingeciren]

What if there is no another device for it to communicate to tell its location. Say, I dropped my keys while I was taking a walk in the woods for example.

 

[Wanted797]

Of course, all of the usual shills get their hands on some first. So cringeworthy.

Yeah I miss the days when they had to wait like the rest of us.

 

[Shanghaichica]

Looks pretty good. Ordered. Not even sure what I’m using them for 🤣

 

[DotCom2]

What if there is no another device for it to communicate to tell its location. Say, I dropped my keys while I was taking a walk in the woods for example.

I think you can probably figure that one out yourself.

 

[chipb]

Thats version 6

 

[Apple_Robert]

What if there is no another device for it to communicate to tell its location. Say, I dropped my keys while I was taking a walk in the woods for example.

If no one else is around said area, you would not get any iOS crowd sourcing help.

 

[bingeciren]

If no one else is around said area, you would not get any iOS crowd sourcing help.

So, effectively this device is not useful in unpopulated areas.

 

[Apple_Robert]

So, effectively this device is not useful in unpopulated areas.

Not if you are counting on someone besides yourself to help locate an item.

 

[Doctor Q]

So, effectively this device is not useful in unpopulated areas.

It's not all-or-nothing. Finding a device within Bluetooth range still works. Its use for "crowdsourced finding" may be proportional to the number of Apple devices in the area, but it takes only one person to sense your lost item's location.