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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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