YouCanLearnThis.com

Useful Tech Tips for Non-Techies

  • Home
  • Useful Tech Tips
  • Tech News
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Apple’s AirTags Have One Major Advantage Nobody Else Will Ever Be Able to Match

By iPad Pete 2 Comments

After years of speculation, it finally happened – Apple announced their AirTag Item Trackers to the world.

These were rumored to make their debut a few years ago, but then all of a sudden… nothing.

They’ve officially arrived, and they’re everything we thought they could be. For just $29, you get a coin-sized stainless steel tracker that you can use to find everything from your keys to your backpack and more.

If your item gets lost, all you have to do is use the built-in “Find My” app on your phone and you’re seconds away from getting it back again.

You can order a single Airtag, or a bundle of 4 on Amazon here.

If all of this sounds a lot like the Tile item tracking system, well… that’s because it is. But Apple, as is often true, has one major ace up their sleeve that their competitors will never be able to match:

The one billion iPhones that are already out in the world.

The Beauty of the AirTags

One of the most important things to understand about the AirTags is that they don’t actually have a GPS signal of any kind. If they had, it would cause the battery to drain down significantly – thus leaving you with something you couldn’t really use.

Likewise, this would also raise a lot of privacy questions that Apple certainly wants to avoid.

So, what happens if you lose an item with an AirTag and that item goes out of the range of your iPhone? What happens if it goes out of the range of a Wi-Fi network or similar connection of that nature?

That’s the beauty of it: it leverages other people’s Apple devices to your advantage.

Any iOS, iPadOS or macOS device can essentially act as a “finder device.” This means they’ll be constantly listening for AirTags as their owners go about their day. The device just has to have “Offline Finding” enabled in the “Find My” app.

So if your item with an AirTag attached to it goes missing, but it happens to wander by one of these “finder devices,” you’ll still be able to use the “Find My” app to locate it!

Of course, this particular feature isn’t going to be enabled by default out of privacy concerns – so it may take awhile to ramp up to full effectiveness. But rest easy knowing that participating doesn’t share your personal information with the AirTag or its owner in any way, shape or form.

Learn more about AirTags here.

Let your friends know about AirTags by using the Share Buttons below… I really appreciate you spreading the word about my Free Daily iPhone Tips! 🙂

Related Posts:

  1. AirTags: The Easy Way to Track Your Luggage You may have heard about AirTags, the new Apple product designed to help locate and track lost items. In recent news, an instance of an AirTag being used for tracking...
  2. How Apple’s AirTag Helped Memphis Police Recover a Stolen Car It’s been in the news a lot lately: people are stealing cars like crazy. But one man in Memphis had the perfect solution: Apple’s AirTag. Last week, an AirTag helped...

Filed Under: Features, Tech News

Comments

  1. Virgil says

    at

    This is super cool.

    Reply
  2. Ninah says

    at

    I’ve used Tile for years because I’m always losing my keys and phone. The only thing I don’t like about it is that it will let you know which building it’s in, but not the location within the building. Now THAT would be very useful !!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Top Tech Tips

New iPhone Features Added in iOS 16.4

Stranded Motorist Attaches His iPhone To A Drone and Gets Rescued!

Is Your iPhone Battery Health Degrading? Find Out Here!

Don’t Hesitate… Don’t Procrastinate… Update!

Is Your Internet Browser Draining Your Battery? New Announcement from Google.

Smart TV Hackers

Scam Alert: Is Your Smart TV Being Targeted by Hackers?

iPhone Passcode Theif

Latest Passcode Scam: How Thieves Can Snatch Access to Your iPhone

Kissing Machine

Crazy Invention: Virtual Kisses Are Now Possible!

Bing Artificial Intelligence Goes Out of Control. Microsoft Forced to Pull Its Plug.

iPhone Photographic Styles

Improve Your iPhone Photos Instantly with New Photographic Styles

Apple Never Paid the Voice Behind Siri… Her Story.

Twitter Security - Two Factor Authentication

Greedy New Twitter Security Policy Puts Your Account at Risk! (A Free Solution.)

About · Contact Us · Get Free Daily Tech Tips
Copyright © 2023 · YouCanLearnThis.com