You can also check MacRumors for deals and availability. I’ve seen posts about deals on v.1 AirTags at Woot and Amazon there. Another traditional place to find hardware designated as Vintage or Obsolete by Apple is Other World Computing.
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I checked MacSales but their search didn’t find any AirTags on their site.
Speaking of these Tag Items, I got a set of 3rd Party, Chipolo, and so far they work pretty well except for the ‘notify when left behind’ feature of Find My App, which I would find very useful. I have it turned on but I can be hours and miles away from the Item and get no notification.
The manufacturer points to Apple for this feature but indicates that my distance and time would have reasonably been expected to cause a Notification.
They also said it might require that Apple’s Significant Locations to also be on for such a notification to occur.
Language at Apple’s page on ‘separation alerts’ and Take Control of AirTags 4.0 indicate using Significant Locations or excluding alerts/notifications in specific locations is optional.
Anyone else had experience with this problem and resolved it? Is it truly not optional to use Significant Locations for separation alerts/notify when left behind work?
I bought some AirTags 2nd gen only to find out that they don’t work on my iPhone 16 Pro running iOS 18. Like AirPods Pro 3 they’re artificially limited to the newest system (not just iOS 26 but a specific point release)
So I returned them and bought some AirTags 1st gen. Amazon messed up the order so I got them for free, plus some credit as way of an apology.
Silver linings, eh?
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Are there any other devices present, that can receive the signal and report location, near the tags you’ve left behind?
Thanks for the question @jrg , yes when I tried this it was at a trade show, not tech type but still lots and lots of devices around for the 8-ish hours a day at the show. Afterwards, at dining and hotel were fewer devices but still around.
Chipolo support said significant locations needed to be on, so despite reservations I put it on for several days. They could also not say how far away or for how long it would take to trigger an alert.
Never got a single alert although I was away from chips for sometimes 2 hours and up to several km away.
So I turned all that off and will probably reset and give away the chips. FindMy has become too complex and interwoven and not well explained by Apple to use and I don’t want to waste my life administering FindMy. I rarely lose things anyway and minimize on device data and services.
It was a test and for me it’s not worthwhile. I’ll mull it over a while then decide.
True. You don’t need an AirTag if you drive a car with its own app. Your phone will display an Apple Map showing your vehicle’s location.