Can you share AirTags with family members?

How would you know if an item was going to be stolen? You wouldn't so "sticking to lost items" isn't an option. You might only want to track your backpack when you can't remember where you put it but if it gets stolen you want to know where it is

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 don’t understand the logic of your privacy argument. What is the difference between the risk of coercion in forcing someone to share the location of an Airtag (not allowed under family sharing) and the the risk of coercion in forcing someone to share the location of their phone, iPad, MacBook (all allowed under family sharing) ?

I’ve just hit the same problem. We already have Tile but wanted to take advantage of the much larger Apple ecosystem’s tracking network. One specific use case for us is a tracker on our dog’s collar.

We can easily share the dog’s tracker with Tile but I can’t find anyway to do it in Find My with Family Sharing. It never occurred to me that any of us in the Family Share wouldn’t be able to see the Airtag. Seems so obvious a need and not just in our dog use case but for car keys as well (was really looking forward to the proximity direction sensing on our family’s various car keys).

Unfortunately really reduces the usefulness of the Airtag.

Unfortunately you cannot do this for some reason. Very dissatisfied with this product because of this, and I will sadly have to return it until they fix via a software update. My wife and I share both of our vehicles, so it’s annoying to see either of us getting warnings that we are stealing each other’s car, not to mention that he inability to track those keys if they aren’t matched to the correct phone. Lol. Back to tile it is.

The issue (beside cost) with having two tags attached a single device, would be that the 'carrier' would still get alerts from the second tag.

With regards your privacy issue, if that was the case, the abuser could use a host of tracking methods (rather than an airtag).

Having the ability to 'family share' is the answer.

I hope this is a fix sooner than later. We plan on using one of the tags for our dog in case of running off. This will prove annoying if my gf takes the dog for a car ride and I’m not with them. I guess we can test how accurate to find the tag and the alert for a tracking device.

There will be times I’m traveling and she will possibly need to track the dog. Lord if I leave to go out of town or even to the store the tracker is just going to beep?

Sounds like apple didn’t think it completely through

I agree. The tags should be part of family share. If someone wanted to track you they can by the phone. The person would set it up on their phone to allow the device.

Apple didn’t think this through. I mean did no one ever leave the house without the backpack or whatever they put the tracker in to test.

This seems like a massive miss on Apples part. I want to track some house keys which my daughter will be using in case she loses them. If she does misplace them you would think she would be the closest and should be able to track the keys herself using her iPhone she would be closest and be able to save me having to get to the location to find her keys

southernfamily wrote:

If she does misplace them you would think she would be the closest and should be able to track the keys herself using her iPhone

That’s exactly right. And that will work just as you said. Of course, your daughter (regardless of age) has her own, unique Apple ID, right? If not, rectify that immediately.

I’m actually pretty shocked that family sharing isn’t available for the items that have the Apple air tag on them. The phones, computers and all other devices are visible to people in the family.

As a result I’ll be able to find my phone or family member can help me find my phone with ‘Find My’ if I’m not near a computer BUT no one can help me find something with an airtag on it.

it doesn’t make much sense.

So iF I am at work and I forgot something at home that has an air tag I can’t look for it until I get home myself. Where as if family sharing was allowed I could ask my child or my wife to look for it. That’s just ridiculous

if you have a contrite argument to this just keep it to yourself. Don’t blindly defend Apple for something illogical.

I agree. They should allow you to publish airtag1to your family. That gives someone in your family share the ability to add the tag to them. They can make it a two part just to verify.

im not necessarily worried about my family looking for it cause you can technically make it play sound and the family can listen and find it.

my concern is I set the tag up for our dog under mine. So when I leave on business trips the darn tag will tell my gf a tracker is with her. If the dog runs off she can’t do anything to find her until she can reach me. If I’m on a flight I guess we just have to hope the dog is safe until then

I actually upgraded my wife's phone and bought a pack of the airtags to start the process of replacing our Tile's because I wanted the enhanced wideband functionality for distance and direction. But the inability to track our keys from more than one device is an ABSOLUTE deal killer. Not only am I sending the airtags back but I'm also sending the new iphone 12 Pro back and putting her sim card back in her XR.

Great answer! I don't see how anyone can defend Apple's decision making on this one. This is going to inconvenience a lot of people who waste time and money purchasing these. They can't allow family sharing on all other devices except Air Tags. I returned mine already and will submit the feedback listed in the link in this thread. It's a shame as I was really looking forward to these, and hope that they will fix this issue soon.

WHEN will Apple fix this AirTags Family Sharing issue. It's clear most people who bought them assumed the same level of security and visibility with other devices would be implemented for AirTags.

Apple, PLEASE notify us WHEN this fix will occur. Otherwise, get ready for us all to start returning them! (If you're currently scrambling 100 engineers to fix it now, and the fix will occur by June 1st, 2021, I bet will wait and be patient.

But if you're not going to fix this ASAP, please let us know that too!