NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts

Re:NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car ... by sgtnoodle on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @10:50PM (#35797183)

I'm a tile user, and indeed they seem a bit unreliable. I got one for my wife to keep in a known location because she misplaces her phone, and it works to signal the phone maybe 4 out of 5 times.

I have one on my dog's collar, in a 3D printed enclosure. He got out a few weekends ago and ran all around town, and there weren't any breadcrumbs on the app. It's one of the mid-range models rather than the high-end ones, though.

I have the high-end ones in our cars, and there's plenty of activity in the app.

While I pay for the premium service, it's too much hassle to deal with the "free" battery replacements. I just buy bulk packs of coin cells on Amazon for $0.10 each.

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Re:NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car ... by com2kid on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @01:42AM (#35798443)

> I'm a tile user, and indeed they seem a bit unreliable. I got one for my wife to keep in a known location because she misplaces her phone, and it works to signal the phone maybe 4 out of 5 times.

Mobile is hard.

Google's Find My Phone fails to wake up my pixel 7 about half the time I used it, even if I am staring at the phone. Sometimes the alert goes off half an hour later.

My fitbit's "find your phone" feature also works less than half the time.

I am genuinely surprised that my wife's apple watch can locate her phone every time she asks it to.

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Re:NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car ... by sgtnoodle on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @02:26AM (#35798739)

Find My Phone has always worked reliably for me, at least. I suspect the Tile's reliability issues come down to inconsistencies across all Android versions, and perhaps a relative level of cheesiness within the Tile app compared to Apple's stack.

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