Vratislav Holub AirTag can undoubtedly be described as a perfect addition to the Apple ecosystem that can help us find our things. It is about locator pendant, which can be placed, for example, in a wallet or backpack, on keys, etc. Of course, the product benefits from its close connection with the already mentioned Apple ecosystem and its integration with the Find application, thanks to which individual objects can be located quickly and easily.
Apple Air Tag
When lost, AirTag uses a large network of Apple devices that together form the Find It app/network. For example, if you were to lose a wallet with an AirTag inside it, and another Apple picker walked past it, for example, it would get location information that would go straight to you without that person even knowing about it. In the case of such a product, however, there is also the risk of a violation of privacy. Briefly and simply, with the help of a location tag from Apple, someone could, on the contrary, try to track you, for example. It is precisely for this reason that the iPhone, for example, can detect that a foreign AirTag is in your vicinity for a longer period of time. Although this is definitely a necessary and correct function, it still has its pitfalls.
AirTag can annoy families
A problem with AirTags can arise in a family that, for example, goes on vacation together. On user forums, you can find quite a few stories where apple growers confide their experiences from the holidays. After some time, it is common to receive a notification that someone is probably following you, when in reality it is, for example, the AirTag of a child or partner. Of course, this is not a big problem that would in any way disrupt the functionality of the product itself or the entire ecosystem, but it can still be a real pain. If everyone in the family uses Apple devices and everyone has their own AirTag, a similar situation cannot be avoided. Fortunately, the warning is displayed only once and it can then be deactivated for the given tag.
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Jiří Filip Moreover, the solution to this problem might not be so complicated. Apple simply needs to add a kind of family mode to the Find application, which could theoretically already work within family sharing. The system would thus automatically know that no one is actually following you, as you happen to be moving along the same routes as other members of the given household. However, whether we will see similar changes is still unclear. In any case, it can be said with certainty that many apple growers would definitely welcome this news.
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It is not true that when someone with an iPhone walks past the Airtag, it will send the location to the owner. 10 iPhones can pass by and nothing happens. The Airtag sends a signal at intervals, and hours can pass before someone "picks up" it. And especially the "someone", must have Wi-Fi, BT and at least iOS 14 on.
True, in reality the airtag in the car in the parking lot gives me the location every 20-30 minutes.
It would be enough if he knew we were going together and then there would be no reason to report snooping. The main thing is that you can set that I don't want to alert you to the given airtag next time and I have the family tags sorted out. What seems to me to be a much worse (dis)feature is that airtags cannot be shared at least within the family, which is quite a springboard when I need to find the keys with the wife's airtag on them. I do not understand at all that such a basic function is missing there. Just like the missing folders in the PlayStation 5, someone was also very clever.. 🤦♂️
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The basic function that I miss is "loss-zooming". I will put an airtag on the car keys and apartment keys. I'll put you in my jacket pocket and we'll go shopping. At the store, I take off my jacket and throw it over the shopping cart. and here is the risk that my keys will fall out and I won't notice. And here I would like if it happened that the phone would start squealing in my pocket like a broken pig. As soon as the phone moves away from the airtag at the set distance. and then other settings, the distance will increase, etc... the hafo is an option. I really miss that...
But it's been working that way for some time
Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Resp. not in practice, because the forget notification sometimes comes after quite a long time / distance. Personally, I believe it has to do with battery life, apparently the communication happens at some time intervals. So, if the AirTag sends a control signal to the iPhone that everything is ok, and a second later you forget it somewhere, you will receive a notification in maybe 10 minutes, and the located object can already be quite far away, if you sit in a car or public transport. I would welcome the option to set an instant notification even at the cost of significantly reduced battery life.
I feel that the author does not use AirTahy. In case of reporting a foreign AirTag, the warning will be displayed once and then never again. It can't even be recalled. So the described problem will happen once and that's it. I had a borrowed scooter with AirTags and the family uses them, so I know this behavior from common trips. Personally, I would welcome the opportunity to share the AirTag. When we were looking for a stolen wallet, it would have come in handy.
Hmm, great thing. I put my keys on it. But you can't lose those keys in the forest on mushrooms. I've been waiting for almost a month for a mushroom with an iPhone to show up on the map. Because when I go to the last place the map shows like that. I can't find them. Besides, I don't understand why the iPhone shows me a different location of the airtag than the iPad. And it's about 500m away. So it's a completely useless thing 😕