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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You cannot.
Click on this link to find out 'How to reset your AirTag' --> https://support.apple.com/HT212251
"An AirTag can be associated with one Apple ID. If you want to use an AirTag that someone else has used, they need to remove the AirTag from their Apple ID first. If the previous user removed the AirTag from their Apple ID but they were out of Bluetooth range of the AirTag, then you need to reset it before you can use it with your devices."
israld wrote:
I would be fine if Apple wanted to limit sharing to those who are in your iCloud Family, but please give us SOME ability to share locations!!
Tell Apple:
The more people who do, the more likely Apple is to consider it.
… So many years of complaining… and …. NO response or fixes or anything.
welcome to Apple
Squidster wrote:
… So many years of complaining… and …. NO response or fixes or anything.
AirTags were released in April 2021, less than two years ago. So, it only seems like "so many years" of complaining.
So glad I found the answer here. Thanks everyone! I thought I was stuck on stupid for a minute 😂
There's a specific form for AirTag feedback here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/airtag
got airtag for my luggage when we travel. Was hoping to share to my husband the location of my luggage/airtag in case i lost my phone or run out of battery.
I waited so long to finally purchase my AirTags, now I find out NO ONE else in my family can see the locations but me?! I had a bad feeling something was wrong when they came with little to no instructions. My dog and my cat have AirTags but I’m the only one that can see them. So my kids and husband are screwed if they need to find them and I’m not around. Apple needs to make an update to fix this!!
Tell Apple at Feedback - AirTag - Apple
I’ve just started using AirTags and it’s been nothing but frustration so far. My wife and I share a car, and I thought it would be great if we were both able to locate our keys when we can’t find them.
Not only does the lack of support for family sharing make this natural use case totally unworkable, I now get random pointless notifications every time my wife uses the car! Today the AirTag decided my wife had stolen our car and sent a series of notifications and emails that seem downright nonsensical.
Apple, after 15 years as a customer this is the first time I’ve ever been frustrated enough to post on a forum. Please do something.
I am so annoyed by this - I actually got my sweet sweet technically challenged boomer dad to download find my friends on his iPad. Miracle of all miracles and I tell him to click over to items and he should see the 1st of 8 tags I purchased at Christmas- and epic fail and I’m sorry completely misleading product. So this product is for people that don’t share their things with anyone and aren’t trying to help their aging parents keep track of things. I just want to use curse words now. I wish I had found this information before - I just assumed they would appear on the items under the family share - why wouldn’t they ?
This is absolutely idiotic that you can’t share among family members.
Got AirTags for dogs and luggage and now my wife can’t use her phone to locate either.
Apple, where it “just (doesn’t) work”
Like pretty much everybody else who's purchased an AirTag, we were dissapointed to find out they cannot be shared with family me members. They'd be a lot more useable if I could share with my wife. We have a tag on keys, our cats, etc. and only I can find them. We'd previously had Tile and could both find our keys and cats. It seems Tile was the better option.
Lost opportunity… this should have been a feature on DAY 1 yet it wasn’t and still isn’t. Because now Apple has become so concerned about the privacy and security that you can’t even use the device for what it was intended to do. Sounds kinda counterintuitive to me. Especially for a family where you have a spouse and kids, I should be able give access to an AirTag location to whoever I want. In all honesty, it’s my product that I paid for, I should be able to share said product with whoever I want as well. If something happens, it’s my fault.
Agreed, a simple send invite and acknowledge from the AirTag owner is all that should be required. Limiting functionality for a product that is relatively basic. No issues using your competitor product from tile like this. Poor implementation and something that can easily be fixed by a reasonable software update.
Can you share AirTag location with family?