Apple Airtags

[Happy Dude]

That's an expensive exercise @VPS, just give the keys when the money is verified in your account by you. Put one in if they insist on a test drive without you though.

 

[DC3]

I am about to sell my car privately and I will put an air tag in it until I get the money in full - just in case

I don’t hand over the vehicle until I have the money. But that’s just me

 

[DC3]

Wife's best friend tracked daughter to a place a long way from where she said she was going.

 

[VPS]

That's an expensive exercise @VPS, just give the keys when the money is verified in your account by you. Put one in if they insist on a test drive without you though.

Not that expensive - a lot cheaper than if someone took off with my car

 

[Happy Dude]

Not that expensive - a lot cheaper than if someone took off with my car

I suppose you might be able to get the keys back if they're a good person.

 

[VPS]

I suppose you might be able to get the keys back if they're a good person.

Or I can just tell the police where the car is and I will have the spare set of keys

 

[kelvedon]

I also wanted to track the car for issues with lost when parking and if it got stolen.

Finding where you parked your car is useful…..but potentially frustrating when it’s in a multi-storey car park

 

[Happy Dude]

Or I can just tell the police where the car is and I will have the spare set of keys

I'd have thought you'd hand over the spare keys too. Out of interest, how long would you wait for the money to arrive before tracking the car and getting the police involved?

 

[VPS]

I'd have thought you'd hand over the spare keys too. Out of interest, how long would you wait for the money to arrive before tracking the car and getting the police involved?

Depends if they were doing a test drive then only one set of keys.

I haven't really thought about it too much.

Last time I did this I made the purchaser come to the bank with me because she paid cash.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Depends if they were doing a test drive then only one set of keys.

I haven't really thought about it too much.

Last time I did this I made the purchaser come to the bank with me because she paid cash.

No completed payment in bank, no car IMHO.

 

[albatross710]

Slight off topic, can I ask if anyone has used an airtag to track their children's car?

We have an apple airtag hidden in the back of the car. Bear in mind:

• Needs a battery change each 12 months so it cannot be totally inaccessible.
• New passengers (kids' mates with iphones) have reported getting the "there is an airtag following you" message
• It can be disconcerting when you are away as we were on the weekend. With everyone out of the house the car was safely 'last updated' as at the time we left. The last time an iphone had been within distance. When I randomly checked on Monday, the car's position had been updated within the previous 30 minutes. Still garaged but someone had been within whatever distance for an update. In that case I would have preferred not to know.
• In the event of a car theft, I will just hope that my thieves don't ahve iphones and don't get the stalker warnings.

With the battery issue, when not travelling I do take the batteries out of the baggage airtags until their next trip. I've misplaced one unpowered airtag.

 

[LoaderTosh]

I have ten of them in use, plus a couple of spares. My wife has a bunch too.

We have them in anything that's attractive or could be misplaced (i.e. camera bags, backpacks, wallet, purse) as well as attached to our many sets of keys. And given the price of a replacement set of electronic car keys, they're very cheap insurance. They've helped me find my keys at home quite a few times...it's amazing where I put them sometimes.

I doubt that they'd work at all in the scenario you describe airborne though.

From a web search … “not all aircraft luggage containers are hard aluminium on all sides, many modern cargo hold containers have soft-sided access panels, typically made from a durable fabric or flexible material”. So, an Air Tag in a luggage container could, possibly, radiate its weak (typically 10 to 20 metre) Bluetooth signal out of the luggage container and it could, possibly, be received by a passenger or crew iPhone on a WiFi equipped aircraft and transmitted back to Apple, decoded, and be sent to the registered Air Tag owner.

Long shot. But with some luggage containers having non signal reflecting material at the access hatch and increasing numbers of aircraft offering WiFi, an Air Tag owner could feasibly receive a decoded Air Tag position report from his own Air Tag just below him. In which case many Air Tags in the same baggage container may well get their signals out and returned as a position report to their registered owners … the owners being, quite likely, aboard the same aircraft.

 

[drron]

We had a few lost luggage problems so some time ago got air tags. So had to change my trusty Samsung for an iPhone.
Last week that iPhone just died. Couldn't be resurrected. Now we have started HLO air tags not really needed. Goody I said now I can go back to a Samsung. Office works had the cheapest phones on the coast but of the popular brands the iPhone 16 was the cheapest. So I am still with Apple.

Well at least I have Onepass and only 30 days until we go OS.

 

[Flyfrequently]

It's been over 2 weeks @CaptainCurtis
any update?

 

[CaptainCurtis]

It's been over 2 weeks @CaptainCurtis
any update?

Still in Sunbury, with the occasional hop on an A220.

 

[kerfuffle]

We had a few lost luggage problems so some time ago got air tags. So had to change my trusty Samsung for an iPhone.
Last week that iPhone just died. Couldn't be resurrected. Now we have started HLO air tags not really needed. Goody I said now I can go back to a Samsung. Office works had the cheapest phones on the coast but of the popular brands the iPhone 16 was the cheapest. So I am still with Apple.

Well at least I have Onepass and only 30 days until we go OS.

You can use iPads for AirTag tracking as well. I use a Google Pixel and an iPad mini

 

[BCons]

Very Useful Devices..

Bag missed a connection in Europe the day before I was flying home to Aust. Over the course of the next week I was able to harrass Air France and tell them where the bag was (it spent 4-5 days in a shed on the outskirts of CDG). One day I watched it move from the shed to a pax gate in T2, and then back to the shed an hour later (after AF's daily flt to SIN had left). Never got an explanation for that one..

And eventually, when they finally provided me with a definite itin for my bag, I was able to see it just East of Innsbruck, Austria. I assume this location report resulted from somebody with an Apple product on the AF flt who was hooked up to the onboard wifi...? The timing and position seemed to match with the promised AF flt, so thats what I'm going with..



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[DC3]

They work.

 

[LoaderTosh]

We have an apple airtag hidden in the back of the car. Bear in mind:

• Needs a battery change each 12 months so it cannot be totally inaccessible.
• New passengers (kids' mates with iphones) have reported getting the "there is an airtag following you" message
• It can be disconcerting when you are away as we were on the weekend. With everyone out of the house the car was safely 'last updated' as at the time we left. The last time an iphone had been within distance. When I randomly checked on Monday, the car's position had been updated within the previous 30 minutes. Still garaged but someone had been within whatever distance for an update. In that case I would have preferred not to know.
• In the event of a car theft, I will just hope that my thieves don't ahve iphones and don't get the stalker warnings.

With the battery issue, when not travelling I do take the batteries out of the baggage airtags until their next trip. I've misplaced one unpowered airtag.

What point “travel” Air Tags with batteries removed when you forget where “travel” Air Tags with batteries removed have been stored and you want to find them? Maybe you should buy some more Air Tags … with batteries installed … and tape them to Air Tags with batteries removed.