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It's a shame you can't share one air tag between multiple people. Like: car keys. Why can't me and my wife have access to the one air tag attached to our family

It's a shame you can't share one air tag between multiple people. Like: car keys. Why can't me and my wife have access to the one air tag attached to our family car's keys? Why is this something someone at Apple hadn't thought of?

justsomehnguy 4y ago
I bet they did but it was a too big can of worms. Did you forgot how everyone claimed what everyone would stalk everyone and hence this shit should be banned? Did you forgot that there were (and probably still are) people who tried to use AirTags to stalk? Now everyone loves AirTags and A. can add more functionality which were deemed too controversial to include at the start.
- Dylan16807 4y ago
  Why would sharing have made those claims any worse? And this way they annoy a huge number of people.
  - justsomehnguy 4y ago
    but stalker would make his tag shared and the victim would never know! It doesn't matter what to do this you need physical access to and the way to unlock the phone, it is still a valid way[0] and adding that at the start would clash with "you would know when [a predator's] an unknown AirTag would follow you". [0] if you can't imagine this happening to you then it doesn't means it couldn't happen.
    - Dylan16807 4y ago
      So if they have control over your phone they could do something less effective than install a tracking app? That's not very impressive.
      - justsomehnguy 4y ago
        Depends on your definition of 'effective'. AirTags are tied to Apple Account, not to a specific iPhone, so trusting an AirTag would survive replacing the phone.
        Dylan16807 4y ago
        If syncing this hypothetical setting would be the problem, then don't sync it.
nottorp 4y ago
> Why can't me and my wife have access to the one air tag attached to our family car's keys? Why is this something someone at Apple hadn't thought of? They probably did, but decided they don't want to be part of divorces :)

justsomehnguy 4y ago

I bet they did but it was a too big can of worms. Did you forgot how everyone claimed what everyone would stalk everyone and hence this shit should be banned? Did you forgot that there were (and probably still are) people who tried to use AirTags to stalk? Now everyone loves AirTags and A. can add more functionality which were deemed too controversial to include at the start.

Dylan16807 4y ago
Why would sharing have made those claims any worse? And this way they annoy a huge number of people.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  but stalker would make his tag shared and the victim would never know! It doesn't matter what to do this you need physical access to and the way to unlock the phone, it is still a valid way[0] and adding that at the start would clash with "you would know when [a predator's] an unknown AirTag would follow you". [0] if you can't imagine this happening to you then it doesn't means it couldn't happen.
  - Dylan16807 4y ago
    So if they have control over your phone they could do something less effective than install a tracking app? That's not very impressive.
    - justsomehnguy 4y ago
      Depends on your definition of 'effective'. AirTags are tied to Apple Account, not to a specific iPhone, so trusting an AirTag would survive replacing the phone.
      - Dylan16807 4y ago
        If syncing this hypothetical setting would be the problem, then don't sync it.

nottorp 4y ago

> Why can't me and my wife have access to the one air tag attached to our family car's keys? Why is this something someone at Apple hadn't thought of? They probably did, but decided they don't want to be part of divorces :)