It gives you the options to stop reporting, or stop bugging you about it. What more do you want?

Depends on how fast and the circumstances of their departure.

Yeah it’s good for when there is something on the internet that solves your answer, but it’s like a needle in a haystack to find. You don’t have to concern yourself with phrasing it just right and scouring stack overflow. I think the power is not just in its webscraping abilities, but for it to estimate what you mean by your question to a ridiculous degree of certainty. It’s very rare that it misunderstands my question even when I am 99% sure I sound confusing

Why would this estranged family member still allow me to see their phone, watch, Mac, and AirPods locations, but not AirTag?

You realize it's likely attached to a harness, or a leash, which in fact is an object?

If OP has implanted the air tag directly into the dog we have other problems.

Why is an estranged family member part of my Apple Family then? They could remove themselves if they want to. Also, even without airtags, if they’re in the family, their devices can be tracked if they allow it. These are all options that can be disabled by the user. Ideally, if they’re part of the family, they can see all of the AirTags that are currently attached to the family.

It is good for coding I will admit

So give you an option to let you choose which family members it should be shared to, and the ability to remove one should you need to.

An intern could do this easily enough.

> AirTags aren’t pet trackers

They’re literally perfect for pet tracking.

> buy a fi collar

They cost 5x as much, don’t use the Find My network, need to be charged monthly, and requires you to sign up for yet another app.

> this is like complaining that the off-road capabilities of your Toyota Camry are sub-par.

It’s actually more like complaining that the off-road capabilities of your Range Rover are sub-par. They certainly can do it, they’re more than capable, but that’s not really their purpose.

I find it quite useful when I’m coding and I don’t know if something is possible. I just type in ‘is it possible to do x, and if so how?’

Saves me reading through a lot of bs on the web

Now check the cat. Is she ignoring you again?

I remember at one point, the first page of results was good, the second was okay, third was meh and the rest were not remotely relevant. Now it’s first page is okay, and the rest are completely irrelevant.

Edit: and half of the first page is basically sponsored ads!

I might be bad at gpt’ing but I actually find it simpler to do it myself rather than explain all the logic behind the existing code to get the answer I need!

Not allowing it to be shared doesn’t fix that tho. You can still stalk someone, it’ll just continuously notify them.

Right. For code I think it's ok if 90% is accurate, and you can clean it up. Something secondary has to compile it and verify it does what you intended.

No such secondary check exists for transferring knowledge. It goes into someone's brain and the accept it as fact, or decide to research it and realize it's wrong. That's fundamentally unhelpful.

It does. I have my wife in my family and I can see her and her devices on “Find My”…. But I cannot leave our dog AirTag as “family”.

Honestly I see this so much but for coding , chatgpt has been a huge help. Obviously you can’t ask it to write code from scratch but if you give it the resources and info to work with and guide it through with specific instructions , it’s a fucking god send , the specific instructions part is important , you need to pre define what you want your variables as , explain exactly what your intended functionality is and 90% of the time it will work with me to create what I need

It’s kind of like Blockbuster. They had it on lockdown but was unable to innovate and then got left behind. From what I hear, Google have tons of good ideas but don’t commit to the stuff that matters. I’m interested to see if the ‘too big to fail’ idea applies.

But this is the problem. If the AI gives you the result you want you will not click on ads. Google by design put payed results on top to be confusing and users click on ads.

I think this is the easiest fix. It’d be great if there was a way to share the AirTag with family, but at very least don’t alert when I can already see that person’s location because of their phone or watch.

Lol. Although I guess more specifically one could say the author's partner is "stalking" them via the dog. Exhibit A of how AirTags are not intended to be used.

Considering I don't have any trackers, and I'm going off what Apple advertises, lists in their online information, and common issues people discuss on Reddit (which in itself is questionable to include, lol)...

The only different in this case is the owner, in this case my wifi, is within the same vicinity. My concern is when she's out, say at work when I'm not, and some of her tagged items are sitting at home when I am.

Let's say "Home" is flagged and the alerts don't come up. As mentioned, traveling. Let's say she left a tagged container/item in the car, and I take the car, it'd alert me. That's fine. Let me flag it as to be ignored (different ways as discussed by others and myself here). Or as one other mentioned, let's say I take my wife's keys to take the car, it'd be nagging me too.

Over 40% of the world's kelp forests are gone because of fishing nets. It should be replanted.

I thought much of the value was in the crawler behind the search, not the search (page) itself. I see no reason to think that Google's AI on top of Google's crawler won't be dominant.

Hey, better safe than sorry.