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                        <title>Re: Tile tracker - does anyone use them?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Always surprises me how many Tile users the map in the Tile app claims it has found in a 5 mile radius of me. Pretty rural. 124 tile users it says.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Always surprises me how many Tile users the map in the Tile app claims it has found in a 5 mile radius of me. Pretty rural. 124 tile users it says.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://singletrackworld.com/forum/off-topic/">Chat Forum</category>                        <dc:creator>Jamze</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Tile tracker - does anyone use them?</title>
                        <link>https://singletrackworld.com/forum/off-topic/tile-tracker-does-anyone-use-them/#post-13170023</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Have to &quot;reconnect&quot; my Tile to my phone every day. Same on wife&#039;s phone.

She needs the Tile to work cos she always loses things. Not so great if you haven&#039;t re-linked that day as the Tile j...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Have to "reconnect" my Tile to my phone every day. Same on wife's phone.

She needs the Tile to work cos she always loses things. Not so great if you haven't re-linked that day as the Tile just becomes a sh!t keyring.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Re: Tile tracker - does anyone use them?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 07:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Ah ok, ta.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Ah ok, ta.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Re: Tile tracker - does anyone use them?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 07:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I can’t quite work it out though…I thought they connected via Bluetooth so surely after 6-10m they won’t connect and you won’t be able to track them as they are out of range?
They&#039;re not tra...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote>I can’t quite work it out though…I thought they connected via Bluetooth so surely after 6-10m they won’t connect and you won’t be able to track them as they are out of range?</blockquote>
They're not tracked from your phone but from any running the app, which means as soon as someone walks past it you can see when and where it was last known. This works better inany apple device can pick them up whereas on tile only other people running the tile app can help]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://singletrackworld.com/forum/off-topic/">Chat Forum</category>                        <dc:creator>5lab</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Tile tracker - does anyone use them?</title>
                        <link>https://singletrackworld.com/forum/off-topic/tile-tracker-does-anyone-use-them/#post-13169928</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 07:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[@CountZero, if you find them and willing to split them, I think I&#039;d be keen on 4 if possible to try them out, please?

I can&#039;t quite work it out though...I thought they connected via Bluetoo...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[@CountZero, if you find them and willing to split them, I think I'd be keen on 4 if possible to try them out, please?

I can't quite work it out though...I thought they connected via Bluetooth so surely after 6-10m they won't connect and you won't be able to track them as they are out of range?

Hence I'm keen to try them but not keen enough to pay full price.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Re: Tile tracker - does anyone use them?</title>
                        <link>https://singletrackworld.com/forum/off-topic/tile-tracker-does-anyone-use-them/#post-13169895</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 06:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[We use Tiles, the ones with replaceable coin batteries. They work well, even in little old sparsely-populated New Zealand.

We got them in the UK when flying back to NZ, it had been in the n...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[We use Tiles, the ones with replaceable coin batteries. They work well, even in little old sparsely-populated New Zealand.

We got them in the UK when flying back to NZ, it had been in the news that baggage handling at Auckland airport was an absolute shit-show, rooms full of bags ceiling-high etc.

As it happened, our connection in Frankfurt was cutting it fine. We had to sprint through the airport to make it, we figured the bags would have no chance. Sure enough, as we were taxiing out we could see that the bags were still in the terminal. When we transited through Hong Kong we could see that the bags were still in Frankfurt, and again when we got to Auckland.

The benefit to us was that after 30-odd hours of travel with two kids in tow, we didn't have to stand by the luggage carousel for however long it takes to reach the conclusion that your bags have been lost en route. We just went straight to the lost luggage office and told them the bags were still in Frankfurt.

These days the wife uses them for bags on business trips, and we have a couple on the car keys as my wife is forever leaving a set in one of her thousand or so bags/jackets. We can just ping them using our phones so they beep.

The batteries lasted just over a year and we got messages via the app that they were getting low and needed replacing.

Edit - not sure what CounZero is referring to about daily reconnecting, we connected ours on day one and that was it (as you'd expect).]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Re: Tile tracker - does anyone use them?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 23:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[“ Fairly sure you’re not allowed electrical items in hold luggage and you’re definitely not allowed phones that are turned on.

Technically you’re not allowed Airtags and we were explicitly ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[“ Fairly sure you’re not allowed electrical items in hold luggage and you’re definitely not allowed phones that are turned on.

Technically you’re not allowed Airtags and we were explicitly told that once when checking in with one of the budget airlines. Obviously we just lied, as did everyone else. All our luggage and bike boxes have Airtags in them….”

There are no restrictions on the use of tracking devices in luggage that goes into the cargo hold, or in carryons, and there’s no restriction on having your phone with you in the cabin, including having to have the phone in ‘airplane mode’. There was some stupidly over the fact that tags have Li-ion batteries in, but there’s no fire hazard with them, because they’re not rechargeable and don’t use the same chemistry as rechargeable Li-ion batteries. 
Quite why anyone would want to put their phone in their hold luggage is beyond me, it makes zero sense.
I have close friends who regularly travel BA business class and ALWAYS have AirTags in all of their luggage - it’s just not an issue, and never has been, except in the heads of certain airline officials who just don’t understand consumer electronics.
I’ll try and find all my Tile tags, a bit difficult because, while all of the batteries are ok, I never did the daily reconnect thing, because, why would I? I don’t, and never have with my AirTags or my Chipolo Ones. Once I locate them, anyone here want them they’re well to them, along with a whole bunch of appropriate CR1632 batteries - I have nothing else that takes that size coin cell.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://singletrackworld.com/forum/off-topic/">Chat Forum</category>                        <dc:creator>CountZero</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Tile tracker - does anyone use them?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 22:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Google/Apple need to solve that part of it first before it can be a truly effective tracking tool.

Google make it sound like it&#039;s been solved, but Apple have been dragging their heels over ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote>Google/Apple need to solve that part of it first before it can be a truly effective tracking tool.</blockquote>

Google make it sound like it's been solved, but Apple have been dragging their heels over implementation.

https://www.techradar.com/phones/android/google-says-it-cant-release-the-next-big-android-update-because-apple-isnt-ready]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Re: Tile tracker - does anyone use them?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 21:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[The problem they need to resolve is the potential for them to be used as a stalker tool.

If you have an iPhone, Airtag will alert you if there&#039;s an unknown tag travelling with you after a c...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[ I’m looking forward to Google/Apple sorting out their tracker specs, so we can have useful AirTag-like things on Android.

The problem they need to resolve is the potential for them to be used as a stalker tool.

If you have an iPhone, Airtag will alert you if there's an unknown tag travelling with you after a certain amount of time (to prevent false alarms from using public transport for example). 

Tile has similar safeguards with really quite severe legal penalties built into the "contract" (you effectively sign up to a contract if you buy one that it won't be used for anything other than finding your lost keys etc).

Google/Apple need to solve that part of it first before it can be a truly effective tracking tool.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Re: Tile tracker - does anyone use them?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 21:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I bought a couple of Tiles for us years ago, but I just didn&#039;t get on with it, I found it easier just to form a habit of always placing my keys in a single place (okay, a very limited range ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I bought a couple of Tiles for us years ago, but I just didn't get on with it, I found it easier just to form a habit of always placing my keys in a single place (okay, a very limited range of places). 

I think my OH just used it as an dead/ornamental key fob.]]></content:encoded>
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