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.
I think you miss the point. Sharing is not just desirable -- it's mission critical.
If i am incommunicado (in court, say) and my wife is looking for our dog, she has no way to make use of its tag until I again get access to my cell phone. Might be many hours. If I'm on a flight to Europe, perhaps 12 hours or more.
Apple needs to allow tag owners to share their tags with whomever they wish. The usefulness of the tag is greatly reduced or even eliminated by the lack of sharing. The alternatives are to tag everything twice at $50 per instance, or simply use Tile.
I am not sure you understand the problem. Family sharing isn't a "nice to have feature". Right now, if my wife borrows my car and misplaces the keys, she cannot locate them because she is not me. What is worse, she is constantly barraged with "there is a Airtag following you" warning message that she cannot permanently dismiss. It is more than an annoyance, it is worth moving back to Tile to avoid.
If this were totally solved by buying two tags, I would think about it. But then both of us would be constantly sent "there is an airtag following you" message. For twice the price, you can both suffer through that harassment.
This is the worst user experience produced by Apple since the hockey-puck mouse.
Apple has missed the boat on this one. I was hoping to install an apple airtag to my vehicle so my son in another state could find it 24-7-365. It looks like these things are worthless and cannot do this job and only useful to the owner. So sad and a total waste of money. I hope apple fixed this in the next few weeks.
I just want to say I purchased an Ebike and an Air Tag as the most reasonable form of tracking. It has taken me hours to realize, hours, that I cannot associate the air tag with a friend or family member so they can specifically track it. This would be so incredible to assist me in case the bike was stolen if i had all set up. They would be able to trrack the bike (air tag) like I can and support. All they can do is watch me looking for it. Seems like an oversight on the part of apple to not integrate this for each separate device or there were privacy concerns. I don't know. I wish youtubers, or apple would make it clear that air tags can not be location shared with friends/ family. Only your networked phone.
Now, i have not declared my air tag missing so. im unfamiliar with how that will help in a search attempt for the bike. Come on apple, you are awesome, kick it up a notch and be super awesome. Thank you
Problem is, Apple doesn't listen to us here and all we get is a link where our feedback is received and who knows what happens with it as nobody will respond to our feedback there either. I can see people addressing the AirTag not being able to be shared every single day. It is time that Apple responds to us customers and gives US feedback and tells us what they plan to do about this.
Like others, I wanted to share the AirTag location of my car keys with my wife who also uses them from time to time. Is she going to get the message that she is being tracked, and if so how does she determine that it is just the tag on the keys?
larajt wrote:
Please report this sharing issue to Apple through the below link. This is a forum for discussion. And although I’m encouraged by how many share my pain, (that I cannot share my AirTags with my family) Apple needs to get inundated with our requests!
Why are you replying to me with pretty much exactly what I just posted?
Same here. We have shared keys for the car. So we'd have to connect three Airtags to each key so everyone can find them. I was hoping that the Apple ecosystem would have more sophisticated ways of sharing things than Tile did.
This problem gets worse and worse. Another issue I’ve discovered is if you use these AirTags for your pets and go out of town they start to randomly beep and make noises after a couple days. If they don’t connect via Bluetooth with a device with the Apple ID that registered it they start making noises that freaked my dogs out. Had to take them off their collars until I could get back into Bluetooth range.
These **** things are useless.
Crazy. I can already track my kids using their phones but not their keys using an airtag? Chances are keys and phone will get lost together and I will have the time of the limited phone battery life to find them. I guess the solution is 2 air tags which I’m sure Apple’s share holders will be delighted with. 😩
Come on Apple!! Who did you talk to before making a decision to not share AirTags? My Queen and I have been married going on 50 years now… we are in that mode where we spend a lot of time looking… for each other’s stuff… keys, phone yada yada yada! The AirTags looked to be a perfect solution… I purchased 8… now I find I can’t share with the Queen… give US a break!! I’m a huge Apple fan… Card, Phones, iPads, AirPods, Mac’s, Music… great products and services. Fix this glitch ASAP! Thank YOU! Note… in the future we may be tagging each other… and the kids will have to find us… A new Apple Entertainment feature…. Find Your Parents… 😂
Has anyone thought of registering a new Apple ID to use as a sharing tool for AirTag? Just share the Apple ID and pe with whom you want to share the location of an AirTag, find my allows alternate Apple ID to be signed into to find lost products
But would that not require that you sign in to a new Apple ID every time you want to check your AirTag? That seems like an inconvenience. Apple is a huge company with robust backend systems. Why should we have to be inconvenienced because they did not think this one through?
AirTags are so helpful because I have hearing loss and it’s hard to locate items by sound. But I have to keep tiles on anything my family needs to find as well. That’s crazy, especially when they can see the location of all my devices.
Can you share AirTag location with family?