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Peace of mind knowing where your stuff is!
By Brjann on Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2025
My significant other and I took a 6-week trip last year to Europe, and had just heard of AirTags. I found this 4-pack for one hundred and decided to take a chance on them. That seemed a little expensive to me, but everything Apple is expensive. These are gamechangers! I bought the silicone AirTag holders to slip them in and protect them, as well as make it easier to grab them. I know traveler hackers recommend carrying everything in a carry-on now, and *never* checking luggage; but we didn't have that option for our 6-week trip across the continent. We put one at the bottom of both of our suitcases, and one in our backpacks. These work great! We also felt peace of mind being able to track where our suitcases where in the airport. Airlines are particularly great at misplacing luggage, and when you are in a foreign country, you don't want to be panicked about discovering that your bag is "perdido" or "perdu" or "persa", and the agent is going on break. In case you don't know, that is "lost". lol The way they work is that they broadcast a ping to other Apple devices around it. At least one of those Apple devices can then broadcast it to the Find My location service. So if there are no Apple devices around, the location will not update. Alternatively, if there are Apple devices around but no connection to the internet, the location will not update. We were in both of those circumstances in remote places on our travels. Once we got within internet range, they started updating again. Pretty ingenious, as long as there are people around with iPhones; which fortunately was our case. It was just great to double-confirm that your bag also made it on the plane! Or sometimes European airlines randomly set a bunch of suitcases out in the open for anyone to come by and snag. This is great if it's a communal object like a bike or a ballpoint pen, but a little different when it has your clothes in it! So with the AirTags we could walk right to where our bags where, without freaking out that we don't speak the language, and why in the world is everyone suddenly on break when your airplane lands and it's time to retrieve your suitcase? Were they busy working when the planes were flying and there was no luggage around? How do I apply for that job? When we boarded for our Mediterranean cruise, we could track that the porters got our bags on board the ship. Peace of mind. And the AirTags are so small, they don't take up any room and easily slip into a pocket, or the bottom of the backpack. So if sticky fingers happened to walk off with my backpack, they would not easily find my AirTag broadcasting it's location. Peace of mind. When we took a later trip to Costa Rica, same thing. Peace of mind knowing that I can track exactly where my bags are. I've become obsessed with my AirTags and wish I would have found them sooner. I highly, highly recommend these. They have been worth every penny in the peace of mind I've found.
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How could Apple have made such an easy success so completely terribly? Completely useless.
By Chip on Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2021
I have used Tiles for a long time (for keys, my wife's purse, and our cats on their collars), and they work pretty well except that should the device be out of bluetooth range, you are counting on someone with the Tile app being near it to have it found. So usually being an Apple fan (I have an iPhone 12, my wife an iPhone 11, we have two iPads, and two Macbook Pros), hearing Apple would be making one, and that you just need an iPhone to go by your lost item for it to be found, I was excited. How could Apple make a product this bad, when they weren't even innovating? Literally all they had to do was copy the Tile and then throw their weight of the ubiquity of the iPhone behind it. But no. 1. You cannot share tag between two people so useless for tracking devices multiple people in the house might need to find like a cat that got out. Unless the one phone set to the tag is there, you cannot find it (confirmed by Apple support). If that person is at work, a drive away, out of town, etc. forget it. Tiles can be shared among multiple people in the house, so either of us home can find a cat that got out, etc. 2. The volume is much too soft to be audible unless you are right in the same room. At that point the directions to the device finally work (the one new feature beyond my Tiles) but simply being able to hear the device would have worked too -- and moreover would work from adjacent rooms, which the directions and too-soft AirTag do not until you happen to enter the right room. Apple support confirmed there is no way to make the volume louder like my Tile volume. 3. Relative to all the above, this is small as it at least has a solution. But it is an extra annoyance that Apple couldn't even include a small loop or hole so it can be attached to your keyring, cat tag, or really anything else without buying a holder which is the same price again or more for each tag and makes the whole thing much bigger (or perhaps drilling a hole in them, if you were willing to risk it). I have never been so disappointed in an Apple product, nor ever so amazed that a new product from a major company that simply needed to copy an existing product to succeed would miss the mark so badly. Mine are being returned and I am back to my Tiles (which also have replaceable batteries). I just hope they never get out of bluetooth range, or that others keep their Tiles (perhaps like me after trying the AirTag) so they are still found if they do.
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