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Interesting point you make. My wife and I have shared an icloud account since before family sharing was an option but i was way too cheap to by multiple copies
by croutonwagon 4y ago
Interesting point you make.
My wife and I have shared an icloud account since before family sharing was an option but i was way too cheap to by multiple copies of a weather app etc.
It works fine short of having to make some new tweaks each time i update/restore/add a device (mostly around setting options in iMessage and Facetime to uncheck my numbers on her device and vice versa on mine.).
I have been increasingly mulling over setting up family sharing. But I am also planning a longer trip to another country and bought some airtags for luggage etc, but also to use for our keys/wallet etc.
These comments have me saying sticking with the current setup would be preferred. Specifically for the airtags.
- rtkwe 4y agoAFAIK if you setup a family the notifications go away. What would solve this for couples that aren't quite that committed would be a way to share the location info on an AirTag or at least be able to mark a particular tag as 'known' or 'safe'. I think with either of those but particularly the former all of the stalking concerns kind of go away. If you can also access and see the location for an AirTag in particular if you do need to get away for some reason you can find and dump the offending tag(s) or potentially disable them. I don't really get why Apple doesn't have an option to do that already. It seems much better for shared objects and people like the Author and it doesn't seem like there are any technical hurdles to providing that.
- el_benhameen 4y agoThe notifications do not go away. My wife is on my iCloud family plan and she still gets them constantly. That’s what’s so bizarre about the whole setup.