Can you share AirTags with family members?

Saying Apple didn’t advertise family sharing is irrelevant. I (and clearly many others here) would assume that either family sharing or some other way to designate another person to help find your lost item or authorize some other person to say borrow your keys is a valid assumption to exist on a product like this.

Sure Apple didn’t advertise this, that just means they are not on the hook to deliver it. It does not mean people here don’t have the right to feel somewhat cheated or disappointed that a logical feature has been neglected.

…or from a different view, how many features ARE in Apple products that are not specifically advertised about? Countless.

Apple didn't advertise it it, but it's competition Tile has had the family share feature since 2015.

Tile listened to their community 6 years ago. Many of the Tile community may also have been Apple users used to the family share we have with The Find my Phone App.

It's really a no brainer to have thought Apple would have had a family share component, especially since it is part of the Find my Phone App.

Also, if Tile doesn't have security issues providing a shared service, why should Apple.

Source: Tile Introduces Shared Tiles for Androids and IOS Devices

03.27.2015

We are excited to introduce "Shared Tiles" to our community. A top request from Tilers is the ability to to share key objects with someone else. While Tile has a lost-and-found Network that spans over 230 countries and territories, this feature focuses on your personal community.

Yes, I have. Although, there isn't a specific place to post issues like all of Apple's other products. So I put it under iPhone as per a recommendation from a community person like you. Not sure if Apple will see it, but for lack of a better place, it went there.

In order for me, my wife and my two daughters to be able to track my dog in case he gets away while one of them has taken him to the park or something he has to wear all four AirTags?

This is a poor implementation. With our Tile we can share and he only needs to wear one.

i’m guessing it’s a feature apple will introduce later on but this really should have been a day one feature. Apple gets an F for this one. Great product, poor execution.

Like every other customer has asked.... Please enable "Family Share" on the AirTags. At least give a good reason whey you don't allow it. I am a stock holder, so if the answer is you want a family of 5 to buy 5 Airbags for every keychain they have, I'm good with that. Just please explain, or fix ....

Thanks!

msz1 wrote:

Like every other customer has asked.... Please enable "Family Share" on the AirTags. At least give a good reason whey you don't allow it. I am a stock holder, so if the answer is you want a family of 5 to buy 5 Airbags for every keychain they have, I'm good with that. Just please explain, or fix ....

This is a user-to-user forum. No one reading your post can fix or explain it. And it's unlikely anyone reading here is interested in your stock holdings.

You can let Apple know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

(Oh, and I'm a customer and I haven't asked.)

I am really disappointed that Apple didn't add Airtags to family sharing!! We use the FindMy app for everything as a family, but had been keeping Tile for things like keys and other shared items that often get misplaced. I was so excited to get some AirTags but bummed both my wife and I couldn't view our shared items in the FindMy app. This has to be an oversight by Apple, right? They're gonna fix this, right??

"Fingers-crossed that Family Sharing of AirTag location was a feature that just was not ready for prime time at AirTag launch, but whose development will be hastened if enough people post feedback."... Posting Feedback :) They need to get smarter about this product.

EricaEide wrote: "Apple, I REALLY hope..."

Erica ~ Although Apple administers this community, that doesn't include reading each of thousands of daily posts for possible feedback. However, Apple will "read all feedback carefully" here:

AirTag Feedback

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I hope they make a change in it to be able to share it with family members that are on the same apple account. Its nuts that we can't do that. I mean do some kind of a two way acceptance clause so both parties have to accept if its a big deal???

From what I’m reading this seems like a double edged sword. While I get the sharing position, air tags are also being placed on high end vehicles so that a thief can track and steal from the home. Obviously this invites other issues where someone who potentially wanted to inflict harm could also follow you. Being alerted to this is a good thing and shouldn’t be removed as a feature, but if the tag could be added to multiple family phones or just had a group mode it would resolve your issue.

"I understand the security reasons for it. That’s why tile was the other option for those who care to share."

lol - there are no security reasons - Apple just doesn't want to do the work to allow family sharing.

Lazy? Incompetent? Who's to say - Apple's ineptness at allowing families to share their resources continues :p

They are literally the ONLY company that doesn't seem to get that people like to share things with others in their life. I swear - does no one at Apple have friends, families or close loved ones they share their lives with? Is it really that freaking hard to understand?

And why is "just return them and use something else" even remotely considered rational advice?

"While I get the sharing position, air tags are also being placed on high end vehicles so that a thief can track and steal from the home."

That's a ridiculous strawman. If I'm granting you permission to track an AirTag I own where the **** does secrecy come into the equation AT ALL?!? I'm inviting you to monitor an AirTag I own (require me to re-enter my Apple ID password if you are worried someone is doing it without me knowing) obvious I know I'm sharing it. And if you accept the invitation to add an AirTag I own to your Find My you obviously know what it is too.

Maybe the only addition thing that would help is if there were a screen that showed all your AirTags and who they were also shared with at a glance so you could easily see if there are more people than you expect sharing an AirTag you own.

But this is hardly an impossible or even remotely difficult problem to solve and the "security" excuse is just that - a meaningless excuse.

Eric Eskam wrote:

And why is "just return them and use something else" even remotely considered rational advice?

Because right now, the Apple Tag apparently doesn't do what you need it to do. Why would you keep a tool that doesn't work for you?

D. Hoffmann wrote:

I have done that. I have also heard that that a lot of those posts do not get read.

It's the posts here that don't get read by Apple. The feedback posts do get read.. However, Apple explicitly states that they don't answer them. Also, just because you requested something, doesn't mean Apple is going to change their minds.