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I don't usually opt into these early, but have been looking forward to AirTag sharing.

by nlawalker 3y ago

kstrauser 3y ago
Oh thank heavens. That alone's worth the upgrade.
- bombcar 3y ago
  It's so insane it wasn't a feature from the beginning, it's as if Apple didn't know people might live together and share things.
  - kstrauser 3y ago
    I agree. I understand the privacy concerns, but my wife and I already share our locations in Find My Friends. If I use her keys to drive to the store, I don't need a warning that her AirTag is following me. I know. And I'm 100% OK with that. I'd already opted in to share my phone's and watch's location. It was beyond annoying that I couldn't opt in to share a specific AirTag's location, too.
    - turquoisevar 3y ago
      I don’t think this was so much a privacy concern as it was a bit challenging in terms of revoking keys and they, like they often do, opted for a basic implementation first to be refined later.
jedberg 3y ago
To be fair, it's not really all that early if you're doing the public release. I've been on iOS17 for months as part of the beta, and I'm not even using the developer beta, just the public beta.
runjake 3y ago
It was a rough public beta. Would suggest keeping this plan.
- _rs 3y ago
  Any anecdotes you can share? This is the first bit of warning I’ve seen for iOS 17 so far with most people saying it’s been smooth
  - runjake 3y ago
    Those people have been misleading you :-) Mostly the usual battery/heat issues, the frequent app crashes (1st and 3rd) and the annoying hidden keyboard bugs that lasted through several public beta releases that required force quitting and restarting apps before it would show up again. Rather than re-hash, /r/iosbeta is a good indicated of the tribulations of each release. https://old.reddit.com/r/iOSBeta/top/?sort=top&t=month https://old.reddit.com/r/iOSBeta/top/?sort=top&t=month
    - kstrauser 3y ago
      I was on the developer beta from day 1, then switched to the public beta when that opened up. I haven't encountered any bugs significant enough that I remember details about them. I'm not saying it was bugfree, just that the apps I use most were in decent shape from the start. (But I still acknowledge that you or anyone else might've had a very different experience from mine.)
      - runjake 3y ago
        AFAIK, the disappearing keyboard bug affected everyone on the betas with recent iPhones. And it happened basically all the time.
oezi 3y ago
The most annoying new thing over the last few months for me was that my Android phone started giving privacy alerts for my physical key chain which has an AirTag which is registered to my wife (a present from her to me).
- bombcar 3y ago
  I've had Apple alert me about my own AirTag, registered to me and I don't know how that happened.
chrisjc 3y ago
Only potential problem (at least when I checked on the state of the beta) is that the person you share it with has to be on iOS 17 too. This was the reason I didn't bother with the beta (although it was the feature I needed asap) since the person I was going to share with wasn't going to use the beta.
gbil 3y ago
which doesn't seem to work if the other user doesn't have an apple device even if they have an apple id. Really lost opportunity here
turquoisevar 3y ago
During the beta the 16 AirTag limit was still enforced with every shared AirTag counting towards it (and individual AirPods as well). I’m glad to see that they’ve seemed to upped the limit or don’t count the shared AirTags against that limit anymore. 16 seems like a lot, but if you’re traveling with a couple of items you want to track and share with your party as backup, you start hitting it pretty fast.

I don't usually opt into these early, but have been looking forward to AirTag sharing.

kstrauser 3y ago

Oh thank heavens. That alone's worth the upgrade.

bombcar 3y ago
It's so insane it wasn't a feature from the beginning, it's as if Apple didn't know people might live together and share things.
- kstrauser 3y ago
  I agree. I understand the privacy concerns, but my wife and I already share our locations in Find My Friends. If I use her keys to drive to the store, I don't need a warning that her AirTag is following me. I know. And I'm 100% OK with that. I'd already opted in to share my phone's and watch's location. It was beyond annoying that I couldn't opt in to share a specific AirTag's location, too.
  - turquoisevar 3y ago
    I don’t think this was so much a privacy concern as it was a bit challenging in terms of revoking keys and they, like they often do, opted for a basic implementation first to be refined later.

jedberg 3y ago

To be fair, it's not really all that early if you're doing the public release. I've been on iOS17 for months as part of the beta, and I'm not even using the developer beta, just the public beta.

runjake 3y ago

It was a rough public beta. Would suggest keeping this plan.

_rs 3y ago
Any anecdotes you can share? This is the first bit of warning I’ve seen for iOS 17 so far with most people saying it’s been smooth
- runjake 3y ago
  Those people have been misleading you :-) Mostly the usual battery/heat issues, the frequent app crashes (1st and 3rd) and the annoying hidden keyboard bugs that lasted through several public beta releases that required force quitting and restarting apps before it would show up again. Rather than re-hash, /r/iosbeta is a good indicated of the tribulations of each release. https://old.reddit.com/r/iOSBeta/top/?sort=top&t=month https://old.reddit.com/r/iOSBeta/top/?sort=top&t=month
  - kstrauser 3y ago
    I was on the developer beta from day 1, then switched to the public beta when that opened up. I haven't encountered any bugs significant enough that I remember details about them. I'm not saying it was bugfree, just that the apps I use most were in decent shape from the start. (But I still acknowledge that you or anyone else might've had a very different experience from mine.)
    - runjake 3y ago
      AFAIK, the disappearing keyboard bug affected everyone on the betas with recent iPhones. And it happened basically all the time.

oezi 3y ago

The most annoying new thing over the last few months for me was that my Android phone started giving privacy alerts for my physical key chain which has an AirTag which is registered to my wife (a present from her to me).

bombcar 3y ago
I've had Apple alert me about my own AirTag, registered to me and I don't know how that happened.

chrisjc 3y ago

Only potential problem (at least when I checked on the state of the beta) is that the person you share it with has to be on iOS 17 too. This was the reason I didn't bother with the beta (although it was the feature I needed asap) since the person I was going to share with wasn't going to use the beta.

gbil 3y ago

which doesn't seem to work if the other user doesn't have an apple device even if they have an apple id. Really lost opportunity here

turquoisevar 3y ago

During the beta the 16 AirTag limit was still enforced with every shared AirTag counting towards it (and individual AirPods as well). I’m glad to see that they’ve seemed to upped the limit or don’t count the shared AirTags against that limit anymore. 16 seems like a lot, but if you’re traveling with a couple of items you want to track and share with your party as backup, you start hitting it pretty fast.