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I’m stalking my whole family - with daily warnings to everyone - because apparently Apple hasn’t realized it can be useful to have keys shared within a family. We do all have iPhones connected to the same family account. This is a glaring omission.

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If you're in the same family account there's a button to turn off those alerts. It worked for my family.

That must be new because it want there a few months ago.

It appears when you get the first alert - click to silence it, and choose "indefinitely." That option only appears for Family devices.

Turning off the alarms would be a great start (they already added that?). What I really want is shared tags though, i.e that my wife can search our house keys and not just me. They are our house keys and everything else is extremely integrated in iOS so it feels weird to not be able to share the AirTag.

This is the most confounding thing for me as well. There are plenty of times having a single shared tag is what you want. But you either have one person able to find the item and one person getting stalker alerts, or both people getting both.

[edit: expand “both” as necessary to include the entire family :) ]

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