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Can you share AirTag location with family?

I purchased some airtags to put onto many things, I am wanting to share the family members like we do for location but I cannot find where to share. Please help


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Posted on Jun 10, 2021 7:10 AM

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Posted on Jul 22, 2021 9:31 AM

It is a bit ridiculous that these can't be shared with family members or just shared like you share your location in Find My with friends.


I have a tag on our on dog, but my wife and my daughter can't track him. That's pretty sad. Do we need to add three AirTags on my dog's collar so we can all track him? LoL.

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Oct 17, 2021 3:05 PM in response to hwp0455

Come on guys this is something that needs to be added. It drives my wife crazy when we get into ANY of our vehicles as each has an Airtag for tracking and when it's not recognized the airtag beeps. So much for letting the bad guys know about it too! Need to tweak some of the features for when multiple people need to utilize the same airtag weather it's family or just sharing one. Then yes I get you don't want unauthorized tracking but when you have authorized on your own vehicle but still have the tag beep when it moves that alerts the bad guy and if they find it out the window it goes.


These are just some of the things that I feel need to be updated in the next update. So, when either of us get in any of our cars the apple device knows it's one of us and doesn't just arbitrarily start beeping. Hopefully, you can add these features in. Thx

Oct 17, 2021 10:57 PM in response to ITATodd

I’m having the same problem with my AirTag on our dog. When my boyfriend takes my dog to his house he gets a message to tell him about the AirTag! I’m the one who has the AirTag as my ‘item’ on my phone and I don’t get pinged at all! So the ‘thief’ or person who has found the item with the AirTag on is warned but not the owner!


complete waste of money

Oct 26, 2021 8:25 AM in response to hwp0455

I wish Apple would update their AirTags so family sharing would work. I don't see what the privacy issue would be. If I am the one who registered the airtag, I should be able to share it with anyone in my family. If there is some issue that I am unaware of, then maybe set it up so my family members can opt in to accept what I shared with them.

Oct 26, 2021 8:56 AM in response to Kozanator

The logic on privacy is a poorly thought out. As things stand now my wife cannot share my air tag...so the dog...wearing the airtag...triggers a warning on her phone all the time that an airtag is with her that is not hers. Ok...totally makes sense as we can't share it.


But here is the kicker...she was so annoyed by it that now she turned off the notifications. So now someone could stick one in her purse and she would not know.


all solved by her being able to share the AirTag...and opt out if she chooses not to.


All around just a fail on Apple's products people. Obviously a super minor inconsequential product to their business, but we expect apple to do things right. And this is not.

Oct 29, 2021 4:09 AM in response to hwp0455

Me too! Apple, wake up, please. The entire benefit of these is that they don’t require access to WiFi, and don’t need to be recharged. I have a kid who never loses his phone (which we can all track), but leaves keys and backpack in various places. He and I need to be able to track that.

Nov 8, 2021 5:52 AM in response to DDLane

Yes, please DO post “how.”


It would appler that the “Family Sharing” is via the Chipolo app (and Chipolo’s servers) vice iOS/Apple.


It would be interesting to know how the Chipolo architecture mentioned in link below ACTUALLY works to protect privacy and anonymity and how it prevents “tracing-back” to the identity of the relaying devices.


https://support.chipolo.net/hc/en-us/articles/209527125-How-To-Share-Your-Chipolo


Judging from this web site statement:


“ … As the Chipolo Community of users running the app grows, the more effective our community becomes in finding your lost item …”


It might applear that the shared “finding function” might not yet be as robust as Chipolo would like us to believe.






Nov 24, 2021 5:13 AM in response to Limnos

What a big missed opportunity and disappointment, we are using this with all my family and evidently this is used for many shared family stuff that gets easily misplaced. It is great that we can find each other’s devices because we leave them all around the house, how Apple didn’t see this feature was critical for AirTag? Must have been a technical issue/challenge, I cannot see other way to miss such an obvious key feature for something like this.

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