(Thankfully, there are third-party AirTag case alternatives starting at around $13, and if you hit up eBay, you can find some for half that.) And Apple's accessories start at $29, literally doubling the price of the device. If you want to add it to your key chain or just about anything else, you'll have to buy a case. It almost feels like a slap in the face that, out of the box, the AirTag can't actually attach to anything. Although you can use your NFC-equipped phone to help reunite an AirTag with its owner (see above), you can't use one for your own tracking purposes. Note to Apple: This needs to be first on the to-do list for AirTag 2. Tile supports tracker-to-phone as well, a feature I consider invaluable. That solves the considerable problem of "Where did I put my phone down this time?" The AirTag works only in one direction, phone-to-tracker. The latter has a button on it double-press it and your phone rings loudly, even if the ringer is turned off. Here's the single biggest AirTag letdown: It's half the tracker a Tile is. Apple AirTags: Everything to know about the Tile rival.Apple iPad Pro update comes with M1 chips.iMac gets bright colors, first redesign since 2012.Apple event: New Apple TV 4K, purple iPhone 12 and more.Tile has long offered similar crowdsourced location assistance, but that user community is a fraction of Apple's. If you report an AirTag as lost, Apple's newly expanded Find My app affords help from potentially hundreds of millions of iPhone owners. Here's how ultrawideband will make your life easier Better than Tile: Community That's far more advanced than what Tile currently has to offer. Precision Finding works within Bluetooth range of the AirTag." As Holland explained: "It uses the iPhone's cameras, its ARKit software, its accelerometer and gyroscope, along with data from the AirTag to create a visual guide that, with haptics and sound, direct you to your lost item. There's also a U1 ultrawideband chip onboard, which helps you determine the exact direction of and distance to your AirTag. Meanwhile, there's NFC support for both iPhones and Android phones someone who finds an AirTag needs to simply tap it with the device to reveal a how-to-contact-you web page. In this case you just bring the AirTag close and then tap Connect on your phone. Pairing an AirTag to your iPhone is incredibly easy the process is similar to that of pairing AirPods. See AirTags at Apple Better than Tile: Smarts
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