Apple AirTags: Hands-on with the tiny tracker
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Apple’s newest product is a tracker called an AirTag. You attach it to an item and can keep track of it with your iPhone’s Find My app. AirTags work with any iPhone or iPod Touch on iOS 14.5, or on any iPad on iPadOS 14.5. A single AirTag costs $29 and a four-pack is $99. You can order an AirTag starting Friday April 23 and AirTags will be available on April 30.
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I’d like an Airtag that beeps when my wallet is 30ft away from me and shows the direction as to where it is so if I leave it somewhere or if it’s stolen from me I get an alert and I can jump into action to retrieve it ASAP!!..
Update: wow BANEKNACK on IG (Instagram) is the best in all recoveries, hacking, verification, tracking.
His really a genius
Sitting here 4 airtags cant even get 1 to work🤦is there spose to be a app for this?
I’m buying 20
What apps or programs do you all need???
Getting older, and losing your keys or wallet happens. Hubby did this several times, and hey presto I’m supposed to help find them. With the Air Tags the stress factor has gone. If the announcement comes, I can’t find …….whatever……I check my mobile……to find whatever has been misplaced.
Amazing … I’ll be buying a 4‑pack
This U1.. anyone have any idea if these will be useful for full body tracking one day? Or are the gyros and all that needed inside of the smaller units as well? I just think back to those recent mocap suits. Their censors use the same hardware if I’m not mistaken.
So would it be worth putting on a bicycle or in a vehicle ?
Do a giveaway of apple tags
Loved the way you explained it, thanks!
People say that this is pointless that it will basically let anyone access it is that true? Or is it just connected to your account and that’s it
Now my dog can never be lost
Truck got stolen had it on my truck got it back in 20 minutes and my family had a little talk with the people who stole it👊🏽
Ok, supose I have it in my pocket and I lost the phone can I find my phone using the airtracker that is in my pocket?
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The ending 😆
The bee is recharble
Ordered some today after my wife lost my mower and shop keys (yes I have a spare set). Can I set a tag up on both phones?
If someone finds your air tag can they disconfigure it ? And you loose it’s location
Would you use it to put it in your car in case it gets stolen? I guess the thief, if they are an Apple owner, will eventually be alerted that an unknown Apple AirTag is traveling with them.
I want to stick one of these to a locomotive that runs on the commuter network near my summerhouse lol, so I can track it
2:43 my ipad siri just activated
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APPLE are a smart bunch of people … Why haven’t they built into this device, a Mechanism that makes the AIR TAG reveal the users. They should render the mechanism ‘unusable’ until you somehow identify yourself before attaching it to something. Perhaps an open panel where you have to ‘retina scan’ or ‘finger print access’ the AIR TAG before it starts working! This would be helpful if it is misused, for instance if an ex boyfriend tracks his former girlfriend and murders her .… It can trace the Tracker back to him. Hopefully these Tags keep a record of all the places it has tracked to.🇬🇧👍🏾
A narcissistic jealous partners dream. Check the undercarriage of your cars.
Stalkers paradise
Well I have mine on my doggo. If if she gets lost and I put it in lost mode all someone has to do is tap the back of her neck to get my info and call me up. Which could be easier than trying to get her to sit still log enough to read engraved metal. 🤷♀️ she’ll have on both.
Along these lines, has anyone watched the latest Joe Rogan episode 1768 (Robert Epstein) about the dark side of how Google tracks you on all devices? Can I advise everyone to switch to the Brave browser and ditch Google Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari. Installing Brave on your computers and phones blocks so much private data tracking, it’s astonishing! …Brave also blocks all those annoying Youtube ads too!
It’s not tiny it’s average
wondering if can be used to track a vehicle
Another tracking device.….I’ll pass
Would it work at sea on a boat
A stalkers dream
Would love to see something like this to be hidden on children. Maybe under the insert of s shoe? or hidden pocket in pants. Prevent kidnapping or help in the fast recovery of. I take my 2 year old grandson to the museum all the time and worry about him getting away from me. This would be perfect to track him if god forbid he did sneak away from me.
Tried to connect my airtag to my phone but it was never discovered by the Bluetooth. Now what?
No way does this come from the website I got all my computer games from when I was young…
My husband constantly misplaces or loses keys, wallet, and cell phone. I have added Air Tags to both sets of his keys, his wallet, and my wallet. I bought plastic credit card-shaped Air Tag holders (a hole in the middle to set it in) for both wallets.
I just spent a whole week searching for his cell! I used the Find my Phone app and it showed it was in the house, but 30, 50, or 5 feet was no help. There was his workshop, shed, lawn, cars, basement, many pockets, etc. to check, but no cell. I was in the basement today and moved tools around on his workbench and THERE IT WAS, dead as a doornail with the Silent Mode on, so when I called it there was no ring.
Would it be possible to sticky tape one to the back of his cell phone or somehow attach a tag hanger?
I can’t believe I’m JUST learning about this gadget. My cousin told me about it today. I loved your review thank you! 😃
what if you don’t want the tag to chime? like if you put it inside a computer incase it’s stolen, so you can locate it without them knowing. Thanks!
What if I wanna put one inside my electric scooter ? Will it notify the person stealing my scooter?
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can you turn off the speaker ?
Very cool. Thanks for the thorough review on this.
Thankfully, it looks to be thin enough to be able to fit inside my wallet, without terribly much hassle (says the guy who just spent the past couple of hours freaking out about a lost wallet).
can you use this on an android phone? (oppo)
Criminal tech for criminals technically only gets better
getting couple of these for my e bike inside the tube it’ll be safe just in case i lose it or someone snatches it
Rats have more toys to overcome,n b defeated,
Good vid, everything I wanted to know 👍
My desktop PC costs more than most people’s cars. I have 3 AirTags in it. The first is obvious. The second is less obvious and the third is so well concealed that if I gave you a week to explore you wouldn’t find it.