Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Apple AirTags: the most Apple”.
Where is it, i can feel the phone vibrating all right. Finally, finally, finally, apple has officially announced air tags. It’S this little puck right here and it’s just like a tile tracker for finding your stuff, but with a few apple, specific differences because apple, if you have an iphone like this purple, iphone 12 right here. Look! It’S a purple! Iphone the air tags slot right into the apple ecosystem and, having played around with this for just a couple of hours, i got to tell you: this is a very aptly apple gadget. Here’S why so? The idea behind air tags is simple enough.
This little thing here has bluetooth low energy and a u1 ultra wide band chip, and it can ring when it’s lost. So your iphone when you’re looking around your house or apartment whatever, can point a little arrow at it when you’re near to it, and then you can make it beat to try and find it. It uses apple’s find vine network, which means that any iphone will be able to locate this thing, but only you can actually see its location, because all that information is end to end encrypted, not even apple, can see it plus apple has done some other things to Help prevent unwanted tracking, which we’re going to get into in just a little bit now. As far as the hardware design goes, i think it’s pretty good.
It’S very small which i like, but there’s no hole here, to attach a lanyard or put it on a keychain or whatever to do that you have to buy another accessory. So that’s one very aptly thing about this apple gadget. Now apple sells one here, there’s like 29 bucks or you can get it in leather for 39 bucks and there’s a keychain or you can get an hermes one for a lot. Our med stuff just costs a lot of money, but look there’s already third-party accessories for as little as 13 bucks and i’m sure, even cheaper ones are gon na be coming really soon, but still just put a hole on it like right right there.
Anyway, the air tag itself is 29 bucks for one or you can get a four pack for 99 bucks. But one really interesting thing is the batteries are user replaceable, they’re cr2032 apple says that they’re gon na last about a year, but when they conk out, you can just replace it yourself. That is different from some of the other trackers that are out there that have their batteries built in and non-replaceable user replaceable batteries on an apple product in 2021, who’da thunk. So those are the basics. But how does it work? Well, it works just like you would expect it to work. You pair it to your iphone over bluetooth. Just like you do with airpods. You hold it next to your iphone and a little window pops up, and then you can tap it and the thing pairs and associates with your account and then you can give it a name and you’re off to the races.
The air tag just appears inside your find my app with all the other devices and when you want to find it, you tap on it tap the button and you look around for it and there it is it just works. Bing bang boom very aptly, okay. So first use case: let’s say that you’ve lost this thing somewhere inside your apartment. You can first of all have this thing make a little beat by hitting a button.
You can go find it that way, and a really interesting part of this is the speaker is actually the plastic dome. That’S what vibrates to make the noise but say that doesn’t work. If your iphone supports ultra wide band, you can use the fine feature and it’ll pop up a little arrow on the screen, and you can use that to follow it around. When you get close to it, your phone actually starts to vibrate a little bit to let you know you’re getting closer, it’s just right there. It’S really neat now, one really appley part of this entire ecosystem is the find mind network. It is nearly a billion devices that support it and any one of them can locate one of these air tags, but only you can see its actual location because it’s all end-to-end encrypted, so we’re going to try a little experiment.
Viren is going to take one of these things out and he’s going to hide it somewhere in the city, but he’s not going to take his iphone or his apple watch with them. So it won’t get the location from that one and then we’re just gon na go out and see if somebody else’s iphone somewhere in the city has located this thing and i’m gon na see if i can find it. So you know, let’s try that, did you catch the thing? I did the awesome thing it! No, no! Oh cool! Here we go okay, i’m on my way to hyde, theater’s little air tag. There’S one thing that peter doesn’t know, and that is that i have um. I have gaff tape, so i think i’m just gon na tape the air attack to something he cannot easily access. Let’S see how it goes well, friends, the good buddy varen is somewhere in this city with an air tag on him and nobody with an iphone has seen it all right.
I think i found a good little spot, i’m right up there somewhere, we’ll see if we can get there. I don’t know where veerin is, i think that’ll work. So i got a notification a minute ago that the tag was located, so i’m walking over to where it was located, can’t see it now. Okay, see that person right over there. That’S definitely theater and he’s walking to the wrong direction and he’s definitely vlogging uh yeah. I don’t think he could find me.
My hair tag and viren was spotted by the find my network eight minutes ago somewhere near this address, and i’m hoping that means i’m gon na see him real soon because i miss it. I miss him a lot getting kind of bored here and all i can think about is food and coffee and deadlines, and now i have to edit the video that you’re watching right now in like a couple of hours, it’s gon na be a long night and I still don’t have my phone or my watch. Oh i see him there. He is hi. Thank you. Have you been here the whole time yeah? I definitely saw you walk over there and take a look. If i went up that way. Yeah it came back.
I thought maybe because it requires 14.5 to work that only 14.5 iphones would see it. So i was terrified of that. Actually, you still haven’t found the thing. Oh, so you got ta go find the thing am i am i so it’s not it’s not.
On your person, no, it’s not on me, okay searching for signal, but i’m moving to a different location. Twelve nine to my left. Alright, i’m going to come clean.
Should i come clean all right, i knew you were going to look for it in the ground. So i brought it on the tree. I brought my gaff tape.
Oh my god, are you kidding me? Where is it it’s come on? You can get up there. Okay, let’s talk privacy, which is another very aptly thing to talk about. It always builds extra privacy features into its gadgets. First apple is frequently cycling.
The bluetooth identifier on these little tokens so that they’re hard to track by bluetooth, beacons or hackers or whatever, but the really interesting thing it does. Is it keeps tabs on whether or not an air tag has been separated from its owner? So here’s one way that it works. If the system detects that air tag happens to be following along with the location of an iphone user that isn’t the owner of the iphone, that iphone will pop up an alert that says air tag found moving with you. You can tap that alert to see the serial number of the air tag and it gives you the option to disable the air tag which you know is just twisting a little thing in the back here to remove the battery bang.
It’S disabled apple also suggests that you could contact law enforcement and law enforcement could work with apple. You know if it has the appropriate warrant, but since apple can’t see the location of any of these air tags itself, that’s all encrypted. The main thing that it can do is check the serial number and see who it’s registered to, because every air tag has to be registered to an apple user. Now, if you’re, an android user.
None of this iphone specific air tag found moving with you alert stuff is gon na work, but if the air tag has been separated from its owner and then it starts moving, suddenly it will start beeping, so you’re not completely out of luck with these privacy and Safety features all in all. I think this privacy and safety stuff is a really thoughtful system and that kind of applies to air tags in general, they’re small. They work with apple’s ecosystem and they have a lot of complexity in how they work. But all that gets boiled down into something – that’s, hopefully really simple to use.
Really. The only non-appley thing here is the fact that the batteries use it replaceable, but the rest let’s go through it kind of expensive appley and knowing that you might need to buy accessories to make it work. Well, happily, privacy focused appley, really only works well with apple devices. Appley nice design overall appley gives itself more features than third-party accessories, like tile are going to be able to access very happily and that’s air tags. It’S a very nice appley apple thing for apple users.
In apple’s ecosystem apple – hey everybody thanks! So much for watching. Let me know: do you like air tags? You think you might want a different solution, or do you just not care about tracking stuff at all? Let me know down in the comments and, if you’re looking for another video, we just did one about glass and how important it is to all communication everywhere right now, so check that out. .