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Are your Apple accounts in a Family Sharing group? I have no idea if that would affect this feature, but my wife and I also have AirTags on our keys and we travel together plenty and have never received this notification.

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Thanks for this suggestion. We are not in a Family Sharing group, so I’ll look into whether this helps. I also might just move her AirTag to my account to track her keys, since if she’s misplaced her keys there’s a good chance she’s misplaced her phone as well.

Same. I just wish you could transfer ownership of a tag between family members.

You can. Disconnect it from one person's iCloud, connect it to the other. We did it with our cat's AirTag when I got a newer iPhone, so we could use the more accurate location.

I do wish there was a share feature, though.

The lack of integration with family sharing has made AirTags mostly useless for me.

It’s a genuinely baffling omission.

Especially given the existence of Find My, which makes it easy to set up phone tracking so we can "stalk" each other. Apparently it's okay to track wife's phone but it's not okay to track my wife's backpack.

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