Leave the key on a little hook at the main door and save $29 or $45 depending where you are from..
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What will you track with AirTags?
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It sounds like me, looking for excuses to buy the latest gadget, ahah ?
The "play sound" to help locate your item is rather faint. Unless you are in a very quiet environment, you probably won't hear the sound.
I was thinking to pull the electronic out of the case, remove the speaker and hide one very well in the motorbike ecu. That would be a good cheap tracking device, and if someone steals it wouldn’t be able to make it beep and localise it in case they get a notification and maybe just give up and leave the bike somewhere on the street where it can be found.
very easily doable
very easily doable
Yes, but it takes a while. I tested this and it didn't "narc" on my separately registered (i.e., on another phone and account) airtag until I arrived home. It tracked me the whole time, for a couple of hours, but I didn't get the notification I was being tracked until I returned home.
You get a least a couple hour head start on a thief, which is good for something.
Why do you think Apple sells a 4-pack?
you get a notification for each tag. So when i tested yesterday she got 2 notifications. One for my keys the other my wallet. Can sound them separately to find each one too.
For those of you looking to place an AirTag inside your Wallet, I honestly don’t think it would work. The AirTag is about the thickness of 7 of the various cards I carry with me in my slim wallet. So that would essentially double the thickness of my wallet. I wouldn’t even be able to fit it in my wallet haha.
I ordered a keychain accessory to eventually place it with either my car keys or on my daily crossbody bag (which I typically keep my car keys in when not in the ignition). The keychain won’t arrive for another couple of weeks tho, so I was trying to figure out what to place the AirTag in so that it wouldn’t get scuffed up while inside my bag. I remembered that my Apple Watch came wrapped in a small cloth wrap when I first took it out of the box, so I just placed the AirTag in there and used some black electrical tape to close the open ends so that it wouldn’t fall out.
I ordered a keychain accessory to eventually place it with either my car keys or on my daily crossbody bag (which I typically keep my car keys in when not in the ignition). The keychain won’t arrive for another couple of weeks tho, so I was trying to figure out what to place the AirTag in so that it wouldn’t get scuffed up while inside my bag. I remembered that my Apple Watch came wrapped in a small cloth wrap when I first took it out of the box, so I just placed the AirTag in there and used some black electrical tape to close the open ends so that it wouldn’t fall out.
I’ve had mine since Friday, engraved, plus one Belkin keychain.
One is on my keys obviously and price aside, I went for the Belgian keychain as I run a lot and take my keys with me, putting them in a hip pocket. Leather seemed like a very bad idea.
One is in my wallet, hasn’t really made that big a difference in bulk.
Third one is in my gym bag and fourth in my backpack I take with me to the lab.
They work as expected upon trials at home, but thankfully I haven’t had to use them for retrieving lost items and hope I never do. That said, it’ll be a nice peace of mind that if I drop my keys during a run, they won’t be a lost cause.
One is on my keys obviously and price aside, I went for the Belgian keychain as I run a lot and take my keys with me, putting them in a hip pocket. Leather seemed like a very bad idea.
One is in my wallet, hasn’t really made that big a difference in bulk.
Third one is in my gym bag and fourth in my backpack I take with me to the lab.
They work as expected upon trials at home, but thankfully I haven’t had to use them for retrieving lost items and hope I never do. That said, it’ll be a nice peace of mind that if I drop my keys during a run, they won’t be a lost cause.
I’m using it for my bikes… I carry a tool/tube container in the water bottle holder, I used double sided tape and then covered it with duct tape. I didn’t want it to go to the bottom, although I’m sure it wouldn’t make much of a difference.
Aside from under the seat I couldn’t think of anywhere else to mount it. I’m thinking that maybe mounting it under the chainstay tape, I’d just have to redo it.
The container is taped onto my bike so it doesn’t bounce out in trails or when in transit in my bike rack - it’s fairly secure. I guess a potential thief could rip it off and throw it aside and render the tracker useless, but I’m guessing their first thought won’t be “there’s a tracker in there let me ditch that!”
Aside from under the seat I couldn’t think of anywhere else to mount it. I’m thinking that maybe mounting it under the chainstay tape, I’d just have to redo it.
The container is taped onto my bike so it doesn’t bounce out in trails or when in transit in my bike rack - it’s fairly secure. I guess a potential thief could rip it off and throw it aside and render the tracker useless, but I’m guessing their first thought won’t be “there’s a tracker in there let me ditch that!”
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Have you tried using the "find my car" feature in Apple maps? Assuming your car has bluetooth/Apple Play.
There's an app i use called "BackWay".
Once you've tagged a starting location (and you can add a photo to that if you want) it will then guide you back later.
I did with my last car. It worked well, though I knew pretty much everywhere I went like the back of my hand and had no need of it.
My current car has no built in bluetooth. I use a dongle plugged into an aux-in port, but it isn't recognised as in-car bluetooth by my phone - so no "find my car"ing.
