Apple’s AirTag is an excellent gadget for keeping track of items you don’t want to lose. If you’re planning to travel this holiday season, having anAirTag in your luggagewill be even more helpful than it already was.
Starting this week,Applesays that three airlines are rolling out support foriOS 18.2’snew Share Item Location feature to help find lost luggage. The airlines are Delta, United, and Air Canada. Apple’s SVP of Marketing, Greg Joswaik, announced the news onX.
Apple’s Find My just got a really useful update
With iOS 18.2, Apple has introduced a new feature in the Find My app to create a link to share a lost item’s location with a third party.
How to use Share Item Location
More airlines will support the iOS 18.2 feature soon
Sharing yourAirTag’slocation with an airline is pretty straightforward. Just open up the Find My app and select the tracked item. From there, scroll down and select Share Item Location to get the shareable link. You can then send this link to a participating airline when going through the lost luggage process with them. A reminder that you need to be on iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, or macOS Sequoia 15.2 to use this feature.
“We know many of our customers are already traveling with AirTag in their checked bags, and this feature will soon make it easier for them to share location information with us safely and securely, helping our customer service agents work more efficiently and giving our customers added peace of mind,” United said in apress release.
This only applies to United, Delta, and Air Canada, but more airlines will support the feature “in the coming months,” according toApple. This includes British Airways, Air New Zealand, Virgin Atlantic, and Aer Lingus. A complete list of airlines working on adding support for the feature is available on Apple’ssite. The link Share Item Location generates expires when you’ve been reunited with your lost item or after 7 days. You can also see how many people have viewed the link in the Find My app.
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