Hypothetical: Bob ask Alice if he can share the AirTag for his keychain. Alice agrees and approves. Bob drops that AirTag into Alice’s bag one day.

The problem is that the AirTag is not bolted on the item that are legitimately to be tracked.

Some scheme that will occasionally inform users on an interval without the phone giving red alarm every time might be necessary. It’s not as simple as approve and disapprove.

The problem is that the non-owner’s phone literally doesn’t know it’s the same AirTag after 24hrs.

The AirTag’s ID changes to prevent Bluetooth scanners to know who owns the AirTag across days, so for example a supermarket chain cannot rig up scanners to track unique visitors with AirTags across locations.

But because of that, there is no real way to tell the phone to ignore one specific AirTag forever, unless somehow it’s no more ID based.

Edit: typos and clarity

> There should be a way to share AirTags with family.

Yes, but there is more to it than just turning off alarm for all family AirTags. The way of sharing must take into account that stalking can also come from abusive people in the relationship.

Should every AirTag gets pre-approved from each member of the family? Can the owner just abuse that AirTag even it was told to the family that it was for their keys, for example?