Sharing AirTags with iOS17
Can someone confirm whether Apple is now allowing shareable AirTags when both devices are iOS17 and you're in family sharing mode for your other devices?
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Can someone confirm whether Apple is now allowing shareable AirTags when both devices are iOS17 and you're in family sharing mode for your other devices?
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I've seen others try through their iPad and they say it worked. I used my phone on iOS 17 and it worked, but I had to enable Bluetooth, iCloud Keychain, and find the actual email from a contact with several that they are using for iCloud in order for the invitation to go out as expected.
Do you know if the contact you’re choosing is signed in using iCloud on their iPad or iPhone with iOS 17?
I found the iCloud thing tripped me up.
I also could not get it to work from my iPhone 14 Pro Max, but it did work from my iPad Pro from late 2018/early 2019. I'm disappointed the person you invite to share can't set up notifications for themself.
Bonjour, je suis en France et j'ai le même problème. J'ai cherché partout dans les paramètres, mais rien n'y fait. J'ai un iPhone 14 Pro. Cependant, ma compagne, qui a un iPhone 12, a réussi à partager vers mon iPhone 14 Pro.
en utilisant la méthode iPad, cela a fonctionné pour mes airtags présent sur mon 14 pro. Franchement, Apple a eu plus de 4 mois pour tester la nouvelle fonctionnalité et n'a même pas remarqué ce problème. J'espère qu'il sera corrigé prochainement. En tous cas, ceux qui n'ont pas d'iPad n'auront pas la possibilité de le faire. Je précise que j'ai cherché sur les forums français, mais je n'ai trouvé personne qui a le même problème. Après tout, les Français sont toujours un peu lents pour se manifester. Heureusement que vous êtes plus réactif, ça m'a sauvé.
After my first post, I redid our AirTag setup. I had been managing my elderly mother’s AirTags from my phone and decided to make her the owner then share them back to myself. The setup and sharing went perfectly from her iPhone SE that’s a few years old.
I was having this issue where it says the # is ineligible for sharing, and found a simple solution posted my MrL09 on Reddit. Worked for me and many others...
Here are the steps to share:
Order of phone numbers on the contact card seems to matter!
I think the bug is somewhere in the contacts. I still had a problem adding my daughter to a tag using this method. She had her Apple Watch cell line listed first on her contact card, and I had to remove it and make sure the iPhone was the first phone number listed. I think the sharing system might default to whatever the first number listed is, and if it's not a compatible device you will get the error, regardless of other iCloud connections.
One BIG thing I noticed: for some reason, when shared, Airtags seem to update much less often. Instead of "last seen 7 minutes ago" it becomes more like "Last seen 09:47" many hours ago. I have no idea if this is a bug or intentional, but as soon as I removed the sharing, the Airtag starts tracking normally again.
Sharing AirTags with iOS17