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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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."
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MegaMatt3 wrote:
Our prayers have been answered. AirTag sharing is coming in iOS 17.
Apple Press Release
I bet Apple 'Engineers' discovered a way to mess that up.
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.
I just bought 8 of these, with the plan of moving away from Tile, but I now realize that they're pretty much useless to me. My wife and I share most of the things we'd want to track. Keys seem the most obvious use for AirTags, as well as the most likely item that would need to be shared. Please Apple, add sharing.
Here is my 2 cents about this.
The reason why airtags location can’t be shared like family devices can, is because Iphones, Ipad etc allow the owner to turn off the localize feature, AirTags don’t…
Let’s say I want to cheat on my husband or wife, I can turn off « share my location » for a while and pretend that I was in Airplane mode or there was no network, or it was turned off due to low battery….
Same scenario with AirTags, I cannot turn off the location of the shared AirTag, unless I pop the battery out, then it would have to be reset again so pretty suspicious 😉
This is so disappointing that AirTags can’t be shared across a family the same as other apple devices. I urge Apple to add this feature to their backlog. I might have to go back to using Tile if they don’t implement this soon.
Pauliog990 wrote:
Please apple update! This feature would so use useful for my partner and I. We bought these to move away from Tile (as someone else mentioned!) but this sharing feature kinda make this pointless…
This is a user-to-user technical support forum. Apple doesn't read here for suggestions or feedback. However, you can let them know your thoughts here:
I put air tags on my keys and bike. My wife is not comfortable with me riding my bike by myself so I tried to share my air tag with her phone and was surprised that my bike or keys air tags are not sharable. These air tags are useless unless family sharing is a future update! Soon I hope.
Unfortunately, no.
This is a really hard thing for my family for when we all go different places and on bike rides we all should know where we are, and not just one person. If that one person were not to be home, we all have no idea where everyone is. Very inconveniencing, and that’s not the only problem with it. Apple, please fix this!
To send someone the location of an item try this.
locate the item in find my phone
click on the item
click on directions
click go
click up arrow
click share eta
enter cell number
send
user will get map of directions, end of route is location of airtag
mwhill1 wrote:
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.
Have you told Apple how you feel?
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 ?
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.
likoki5980 wrote: "Apple if it's not too much trouble, update this to incorporate family sharing."
Apple isn't here; we're just users like yourself. Use this form:
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So happy to get my 1st AirTag today and Googling to see how to share the location with family and I can’t! Or should I say - no one can :( Come on Apple, sort it out!
Can you share AirTag location with family?