Re:An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
by alkonaut on Thursday February 10, 2022 @04:49PM
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99% of the tracking notifications are given to my family members. It’s hilarious that you can’t “join” a family members tag so it can be shared within the family.
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Re:An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
by hackmiester on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:08PM
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Being in an iCloud family does suppress the tracking notifications.
Re:An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
by aczerepinski on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:44PM
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I don’t think so. My wife and I are iCloud family and I still get alerts every time I drive the car without her.
Of the four pack I bought one is useful for finding my keys, one is a PITA in our car, and two I never got around to using.
Re:An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
by throwaway932489 on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:17PM
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i.e. completely stop or just reduce? Because I was going to say it would make sense for the "threat model" to go beyond "traditional" stalking to domestic abuse etc.
Re:An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
by hackmiester on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:20PM
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Completely stop.
Re:An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
by coolspot on Friday February 11, 2022 @02:50PM
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Not true, you will receive notifications as usual.
You can choose to supress indefenitly.
Source: have iCloud family with like 10 airtags.
Re:An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
by alkonaut on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:11AM
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Really? Since which iOS? I got them as late as yesterday on a famly members' phone.
Re:An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
by asadlionpk on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:23PM
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That must be recent.
Re:An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
by jasongill on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:25PM
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agreed - my wife and I still get alerts about each others keys being with us. I wish there was a way to actually see the location of other family member's AirTags, so that I can find my wife's keys with my device. It's annoying that we can see eachother's phones and Macs in the Find My app but can't see eachother's AirTags.
Re:An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
by jedberg on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:08PM
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Are you on a shared iCloud account? This never happens to my wife and I but we’re on the same iCloud family account.
Re:An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
by Judson on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:12PM
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Interesting. Just one data point, but my wife and I both have airtags on our keys. When I drive her car (and she's not in it), I get a notification about her keys traveling with me. We're on the same iCloud "family" account. I wonder if there’s something else that needs to happen?
Re:An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
by jedberg on Thursday February 10, 2022 @07:42PM
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When you go into "Find My", can you see your wife's devices and keys?
Re:An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
by Judson on Friday February 11, 2022 @10:34AM
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I see all her other devices, but not keys. Now that I know how it should work, going to see if re-registering the keys changes things.
Re:An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
by hackmiester on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:20PM
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I would reach out to Apple about that. It’s not supposed to work that way.
Re:An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
by oarsinsync on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:40PM
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“Okay, so what we’re going to try and do here, is reset and erase, and not restore from iCloud backup, so we can rule out this being something in your profile.”
Re:An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
by labcomputer on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:44PM
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When you say "iCloud family account", do you mean you both log into the same account using the same credentials, or that you use "family sharing" to, e.g., share iCloud data, purchases, etc.?