Can you share AirTag location with family?

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

Would be nice if Apple took all this feedback on board and is saying thank you we will be looking into your valuable customer feedback, instead of defending themselves and reminding us of their return policy!

Kutte wrote:

Would be nice if Apple took all this feedback on board and is saying thank you we will be looking into your valuable customer feedback, instead of defending themselves and reminding us of their return policy!

As has been explained more than once in this thread, Apple doesn't read these forums for feedback. You can wish they did but, they don't. If you want Apple to know your thoughts on the matter, use the channel they have provided:

Product Feedback - Apple

I will say that in your instance is different....It is telling him that he has an item nearby that doesn't belong to him. By design, and in the product description, that is what they are supposed to do. I was referring to the fact that my wife can not open the app and actually track them.

In term of usage, that's ridiculous. I didn't even think it was not possible and bought it without a doubt.

In term of privacy, that's when Apple decided a family member should not track another. That's arguable.

Then a solution Apple : let it possible when we already share our position. Then, that's a no-brainer.

That's pretty brilliant. If you share your location, then the tracker should be active. I like that.

I guess many items I have though are shared between our family members. Such as shared keys, shared remote, shared DOG.

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.

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.

Apple needs to solve this ASAP. My wife and I travel a lot, but if she takes a suitcase that the tag is assigned to me the buzzer starts to go off, alerting her that she is being followed. This could be solved by sharing the tag. if you connect for a tag to follow you, then there shouldn't be privacy issues......

Yes, it’s clear $1 trillion is “not enough” for Apple, so we all have to either be content with the fact that they are pushing Apple fans to buy more single user Airtags, or…we can just switch to tile.com

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.

Hi Apple

The idea is great but not finished. You talk and develop tools for health. So Airtags can be useful for people with dementia, or better for their families. Bute therefore the tag or the location must be shareable.

BR

Ralf

This is a no-brainer. I can share Apple-managed photos, music, personal location, etc., but not an Airtag?

What happens when our tagged dog gets lose and my wife is on one of her periodic flights. I won’t get any alerts until she lands and then it may be too late.

Sharing makes sense. No ability to share is asking for trouble.

Same. I own Tiles which can be shared with family.

just bought two Air Tags and very disappointed. Same old Apple. (Love what I have but hate how Apple doesn’t like to play nice.) is likely own more Apple products if they did play more nicely with others.

Start sharing Apple.

Re: “… Probably will need to return them and go to tile as well if an update doesn’t happen ASAP …”

DO keep the timeline requirements of Apple’s Return Policy in mind. The “deadline” can really sneak up on you.

https://www.apple.com/shop/help/returns_refund

Tile has some interesting capabilities, although they come at the expense of the security, privacy, and anonymity built-in to Apple’s ecosystem.

They can also only be located by other Tile users (and extenders); vice the many millions of Apple devices. In most environments, the odds of a Tile user being near your “unlocated” item is likely significantly lower than that of having of an Apple device nearby.