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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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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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.
AirTag, and Devices for that matter, should be able to be shared. Adding simple authentication as in people tracking should not be beyond Apple's ability, and would make the item much more useful to families.
Same here. We use AirTags on our cats. The tags are registered with my wife's Apple ID, so it's a pain when she leaves on a business trip. Can't believe Apple missed the boat on such a trivial feature.
You DO understand that unless your dog is quite near another iPhone (a “relaying device”) that you’re STILL not going to locate the tag … right ???
Pet tracking is a generally poor application for AirTags.
Plus it results in neurotic animals from the incessant “chirping” when you and your own devices are not nearby.
It seems like a no brainer here, if the owner of the AirTag is consenting or permits Apple to share the location of the AirTag with other people and the intended recipient consents to receiving that information there are no issues.
I feel like this was intentionally deceptive and dishonest marketing by Apple to increase revenue. I’m wondering if I should file complaints with Better Business Bureau.
So if I lose my iPhone with the AirTag assigned to it and the battery dies and am unable to find my iPhone no one would ever be allowed to find or use that AirTag.
That sounds like literally the silliest thing ever for a technology that is marketed to find your belongings.
This is a big problem I have with Apple and it’s technology ecosystem. I need to buy all sorts of Apple devices just assigned to me for redundancy. I can’t have different profiles on an iPad for my young kids, so everyone needs their own Apple Device. This isn’t Green or environmentally conscious, Apple is just greedy chasing profits.
Instead of using just one Apple AirTag and sharing with anyone that needs to know the location, everyone has to buy their own Apple AirTag and put it on the same object for us each to know where it is.
Wow what a miss and fail by Apple. I converted over to Apple from Android devices a few years ago. Seeing that this is the way Apple wants to operate I’m thinking I’ll go back to Android where I don’t need 15 devices and can just share my devices.
Apple I recommend you get your act together and start satisfying common and expected use cases with your technologies. Keep this up and you’ll lose your market share quickly especially during a looming recession here in 2022.
Remember growth is logistic and there is an upper bound, if you try to exceed the upper bound you will crash the population, in this case your market share.
Re: “… I’m wondering if I should file complaints with Better Business Bureau …”
Knock yourself out. 😉
However, making invalid, unsupported assumptions about hardware capability generally doesn’t form a sound basis for a complaint …
… especially given Apple’s 14-day “no questions asked” refund policy.
This seems like a obvious feature, that is missing.
I just purchased 4 of these, thinking I would be able to share with family. But, now, I feel buyer's remorse.
Tile seems to have made this feature simple, as shown here.
Should have 4 tiles instead.
Next time, Tile.
Bad fix for AirTags being dropped on unsuspecting people. Makes them mostly useless. Trying this on my family pet in case she gets out and it is effectively worthless. Even within a shared family it is not visible to all like devices are. Just a terrible solution and needs to be corrected. Should also be sharable like a tile is. Surely this can be un-fixed. Probably sending it back as it is essentially useless except for personal items. What if multiple people are trying to find it, primary user is out of the home but car keys need to be found. Whole slew of reasons to share to whomever or at a minimum within a family by selection a share option.
"So if I lose my iPhone with the AirTag assigned to it and the battery dies and am unable to find my iPhone no one would ever be allowed to find or use that AirTag."
You can find the location of the AirTag (but won't be able to play a sound) from an iPad or Macbook using the same Apple ID.
So my family can see literally everything from my iPhone to my AirPods but can not see my AirTags!
This doesn't make any sense!
We put these nowadays in our pets or little kids to check on them in kindergarten and it is important to check on them by the family members
Hope Apple change this to be shared with family members!
Bought AirTags to track our dog when one of us travels. Unfortunately Apple has not made sharing a feature so now we need to have 2ATs - Dog1 and Dog2 - so that we can track her separately.
Come on Apple; you are missing out on a shed load of business without the family-share feature.
This should work the same way as sharing my location on my iPhone. If my wife loses her purse with her phone and AirTag inside, I should be able to see the location if she shared permissions with me. This question IS NOT about using one AirTag with two apple IDs
it IS… ‘’we make our own rules” Apple 🍎
…Force the customer to buy more of our products…
the least they can do, is to allow each unique Apple account to enable access to an AirTag during configuration with confirmation to allow share.
crap feature, but I own eight, to bypass their bs ingenuity
Squidster wrote:
it IS… ‘’we make our own rules” Apple 🍎
…Force the customer to buy more of our products…
the least they can do, is to allow each unique Apple account to enable access to an AirTag during configuration with confirmation to allow share.
crap feature, but I own eight, to bypass their bs ingenuity
So, are you saying Apple got you to buy eight AirTags? And, as a for-profit company, Apple’s goal it to sell more things and make more money. So, I guess they’re doing okay.
No, what I’m saying is… I bought 8 and cannot share.
therefore, I will not buy any more Apple products until they get better reviews on how they work.
I have since swapped my AirTag’s for a competitor tag… which works 200% better.
sucks for Apple customers like me, but if they don’t help their own customer base, they can lose their respect and $$$
jezus… you can share a device, but you can’t share a tag??!?!!? Bad business
And yet, Apple has become one of the most successful companies in the world by doing what they have always done: Give the customer what Apple decides the customer needs, not what the customer thinks they want." It has never been clear to me why people think that's suddenly going to change.
But, absolutely, if a small bit of plastic and circuitry is going to get you that upset, you should stop buying them. And, if you don't agree with Apple's business philosophy, don't buy their products.
Can you share AirTag location with family?