To protect stolen items, the Airtag is pretty useless, since it warns the criminals about the presence of the Airtag. The Airtag could be designed with a hole in the Airtag, like the Tile, but the Airtag doesn’t have a hole it it. The reason that the Airtag doesn’t have a hole in it, is so that Apple can sell you can expensive Airtag holder.
The more practical tracking device is a Tile, which doesn’t alert the criminals that the stolen item can be tracked. The Tile is very useful to help find misplaced items around your house, like a key ring. The Tile Pro model is the best Tile model to buy, because it’s alert sound is much louder, and the battery is replaceable.
Using the Airtag to track stolen items is useless because it alerts the criminals. Using the Tile to track stolen items is a better choice. But for high value items, like a vehicle, or important things, like a pet, a Tile tracker is a poor man’s tracking device. For high value or important things, a real GPS tracker is the best choice. But GPS trackers are more expensive, and requires a subscription to a tracking service.
It might take days or weeks for another Tile user to move nearby to the stolen item. A GPS tracker would track the stolen item in real time.
Another option for tracking is the “Loc8tor” device, which is a stand alone tracker. The “Loc8tor has a range of up to 400 feet, so you have to be within 400 feet. But you can track the item to within about one inch. The “Loc8tor” doesn’t require a subscription service, and could be a more practical method to track pets, if you can get within the 400 foot range, to start the tracking.
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