Lost luggage? You can now share your Apple AirTag with BA, Virgin, Iberia, Aer Lingus & more

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• Gordon says:

  21 Dec21 December 09:01

  @Paul – Not sure about Tile, but my friend has an air tag in his child’s clothing, incase of getting lost, but these devices need to connect to nearby Bluetooth device to work, so if someone is in a remote location, lt would be difficult to locate them.

  With air tags there was an update quite a while ago, regarding people using them for stalking purposes, so now the Air tag alerts the device nearest to it after so many alerts, to inform them of an Air tag in their vicinity.

  • Ironside says:

    21 Dec21 December 09:59

    We walk our friends’ dog occasionally. The dog has an AirTag on his collar. We are frequently informed that the dog is ‘stalking’ us, helpfully on both our Android and iOS devices.
    Cleverly, I believe that doesn’t happen on public transport when one might be surrounded by multiple AirTags.

    • Gordon says:

      21 Dec21 December 10:52

      After the air tag has been out of range of the registered user between 4 to 12 hours, it emits a noise alert, so if someone that is potentially being stalked will be made aware of the device within their vicinity!

      So the reason you won’t be alerted on the tube is because of the time lag, it’s bad enough traveling on the tube for 5 minutes let alone hours.

      • Roy says:

        21 Dec21 December 19:42

        Unfortunately there are numerous guides on the internet as to how to take it apart and physically disconnect the sounder so that the alert sounds don”t happen.

        • Gordon says:

          21 Dec21 December 20:53

          Unfortunately, there are many sad individuals that are willing to tamper with these devices to allow them to commit crime, as with any other devices on the market, but this will be plugged by apple hopefully.

  • paul says:

    21 Dec21 December 10:20

    I wonder – would the Tile be recognised is my wife’s Bluetooth is already connected to her headphones?

    She would have had both days and Bluetooth on and the Tile only recorded 1 location in a 90 minute walk ie pretty useless

    • paul says:

      21 Dec21 December 10:21

      Data and Bluetooth not days and Bluetooth duh

• Andy says:

  21 Dec21 December 09:09

  We bought 4 tags for £25 similar to AirTag that are compatible with find my and work in exactly the same way

  • S says:

    21 Dec21 December 09:13

    Worth noting that most of the cheap ones don’t do precision finding. However, while’s that’s useful for finding your keys, it’s much less of an issue for tracking your luggage.

  • cin4 says:

    22 Dec22 December 07:08

    Been using these for years, work perfectly for expensive luggage at a fraction of the cost.

• Jill Kinkell says:

  21 Dec21 December 09:12

  Great for the element of reassurance that our bags are where they should be, but sometimes there is a wee flutter of anxiety when a tag takes a while to show up on the app.

• L Allen says:

  21 Dec21 December 09:14

  Not being a member of the Apple fanclub, I use Pebblebee which is Android compatible. You can register it either with the Google Find My Device network or Pebblebee’s own app and hope that its network is big enough to trace your device. The latter app has more features but I use it with the Google network as that is cross compatible with Apple’s to widen the number of devices that can detect and share location data

• Clive says:

  21 Dec21 December 09:17

  When it takes them from Monday to Thursday to deliver missing bags to Dubai you have to ask if this is really worth it

• David S says:

  21 Dec21 December 09:23

  Have had these for a couple of years since BA lost our luggage travelling to LAS. Having had them that long, I’ve learned to also carry a spare battery as well. In Asia last year had a battery low alert and couldn’t believe how difficult it was to track down the right batteries and how much they cost versus Amazon UK.

  • Gordon says:

    21 Dec21 December 10:02

    I’d agree re the batteries, but when we are not traveling we remove them, to save on battery life!
    And if we have had them for a year we replace and recycle them as a matter of course, for peace of mind,
    Tbh I’ve never had an issue finding CR2032 replacement batteries, and their prices are not expensive.
    Try the below website for battery purchases, they do have some good prices from time to time.
    https://www.batterystation.co.uk/

  • Gordon says:

    21 Dec21 December 10:14

    I’ve actually just looked and a pack of 12 Panasonic CR2032 batteries are £5.25 inc vat, or a pack of 6 is £2.95 inc vat, plus £1.95 delivery to UK mainland, can’t moan at them prices!

    • Jill Kinkell says:

      21 Dec21 December 10:32

      I’ve just paid £4.50 for 2 Duracell at Tesco. ☹️ Must try harder

    • Thomas says:

      21 Dec21 December 18:07

      Beware, you’ll use one or two immediately, thinking the rest will be fine when you need them but alas, the batteries are flat by that time 😩

  • cin4 says:

    22 Dec22 December 07:09

    The batteries are much cheaper in Asia and as available in brick and mortar shops.

• BulbousSquidge says:

  21 Dec21 December 09:36

  For an alternative Android version, a Chipolo One Point costs about £30 and works well with Google’s Find My Device, so I could watch my suitcase spending a couple of days shuttling back and forth between T4 and T4S at Madrid Airport. I could even make out when it finally made it onto a plane out of there…

• jek says:

  21 Dec21 December 09:39

  What the article missed to point out is that the share functionality is not specifically only for AirTags. It is a functionality of the Find My network and non-Apple items can be shared if they are working with the Find My network.

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