Deploy an AirTag or Accessory

AirTags, third-party items, and associated accessories can be used in a lot of ways, some of them more obvious than others. Clearly, you might add them to a keychain (AirTags require a keychain holder), or zip them into the pocket of a purse, messenger bag, backpack, or luggage.

Less obvious might be placing them in an interior pocket of a jacket, sewing them into clothing, or putting one in a saddle bag on your bicycle—or on a pet’s collar. I’ve thought about how they might be used with a car, where you might hide not just one, but two—in case thieves found one! Cars are so often near other people, AirTags are likely to be tracked and updated.

Our colleague Kirk McElhearn even tested sending one in a package ...

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