Can two accounts track the same airtag? Can me and my wife track the same airtag if we are in the same family account?
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Engineer_Who_Loves_Apple wrote: "Need to share these within the family!"
"...it will never happen. Apple has made AirTags impossible to share for an extremely important reason. Privacy.
If it were possible to share an AirTag, then it would be impossible to stop coercion. Someone in a domestic abuse situation could be made to share access to their AirTag and Apple has therefore prevented this.
Regrettably, the answer to everyone with a good reason to share an AirTag is the same solution that will work for anyone with a bad reason. Buy two AirTags.
True, it's more money, and you can imagine Apple is both glad about that and also figuring that the extra cash is an extra barrier to abusers. But the people arguing that you cannot share an AirTag also seem to unthinkingly assume you can't put two AirTags on an item." Source:
Review: AirTag sets out to do one thing, and does it near perfectly
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I'm very frustrated that you can't share them. This is something that Apple really needs to fix. Why would you not be able to share these. You can share your own location, so it's clearly not a security issue. Please fix this apple.
arcurlyq wrote:
This has to be an oversight by Apple, right? They're gonna fix this, right??
No one here in this user-to-user could answer those questions. However, the more people who submit feedback to Apple letting them know how important this feature is to them, the more likely they are to make the changes.
The AirTag was a life save today as we tracked my dad for over 6 hrs watching him trying to find his way back home. My dad has dementia and left the house around 9 this morning without telling my mom nor bringing his phone with him (he's not suppose to be driving). We tried to catch up to him but the reporting AirTag latency (sometimes as much as 10+min) made it very difficult to know his location. Needless to say, we had the police involved from 3 different states and counties as he tried his best to get home. We used a combination of sharing my apple ID with family members and Waze for traffic patterns to locate him after running out of gas on a major highway. Thank goodness nobody got injured and we were able to bring him home.
Yes, I think it would be great if Apple provide a fix to allow sharing AirTag information and improve their latency reporting.
It's 2022 and this still isn't a thing. Every year I grow more and more disillusioned with Apple. I can track my wife in real time nearly anywhere on the planet but god forbid if my wife wanted to use her iPhone to locate my keys that I left under the mail next to the door.
They won't allow this basic and obvious feature, but at least I get to read about 1 or 2 stories a day on Apple News about how Air Tags are being used in crime sprees across the US and used to track, assault, and sexually exploit women. The "privacy" argument at this point is a joke and a complete non sequitur. I swear Apple get more clueless every single year.
Apple does not read here for feedback or suggestions. You can let them know your thoughts here:
The more people who actually submit feedback where Apple will see, the more likely they are to consider adding the feature.
This seems pertinent. Remember your AirTags will be associated with one iPhone.
I have a AirTag and nothing appear in family share .... my family don't see my object
VERY disappointed that family members cannot see the airtags the same as you can all of the devices. Had I known I wouldn’t have bought 2 of the 4 packs.
ADWWally wrote: "...I hope Apple add this in a future update"
Persuade them via this page:
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Yes, never share an Apple ID.
AirTags have one custodian.
Limnos wrote:
They are associated with one Apple ID, not any particular hardware.
Agreed - they’re not associated with any particular hardware - but they are associated with the location of the iPhone possessor. That person appears to be notified about nearby AirTags regardless of the Apple ID of the AirTag owner.
Good question regarding Family Sharing.
That image you included... I can see people sharing an office and then one person goes down to the coffee shop taking their phone with them but leaving an Airtag attached to a bag or keys or something in the office space with the colleagues nearby with their iPhones. Suddenly everything starts beeping because you're near an AirTag but the owner isn't nearby.
Or when someone goes out of their house, deliberately leaving any of their tagged items at home that day, while other people remain at home who aren't on the same Apple ID. The beeping would be endless until their rightful tag "owner" returns to reunified? These items haven't been separated, as in lost: they've been intentionally left somewhere. Just like the office example you mentioned. Potentially a much more potent tracking network than Tile, but with possibly annoying consequences. Let's see on Friday.
Hopefully Apple support is wrong. Because if they a correct and a wife was to drive the car using her husband keys and he didn’t go with her. Then the system would warn her she is being tracked.
We need to have the option to share tracking items among friends and family. The second person should be able to be invited to share access to the tag.
I hope you can share with other family members. We've ordered 4 tags, one each for our keys and one for our dog's collar. We are expecting that we can both see where all the tags are. If our dog walker takes the dog out (she has an iPhone too) I would expect her iPhone to warn her she is being tracked but for her to pause the warning. He currently has a 4G tracker so she is aware that we see where she has taken him and know when she is on the way back. Only another day until we find out if these are great or just a terrible implementation!
Can you share AirTags with family members?
