Fix your AirTag using your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

With AirTag, you tin keep rails of everyday items similar your keys or a backpack. Learn how to set upwards your AirTag with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on.

What yous demand

  • An iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect with iOS 14.5 or iPadOS 14.five or later and two-cistron hallmark turned on.
  • Observe My turned on.
  • Bluetooth turned on.
  • A strong Wi-Fi or cellular connection.
  • Location Services turned on: Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services.
  • To be able to use Precision Finding and to encounter the nigh accurate location for your AirTag, turn on Location Admission for Find My. Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services, so curl downwardly and tap Find My. Check While Using the App or While Using the App or Widgets. Then plough on Precise Location.

If y'all have a Managed Apple ID, you tin can't prepare up an AirTag.

Ready your AirTag

  1. Make sure that your device is ready for setup.
  2. If your AirTag is new, remove the wrap around the product and pull out the tab to activate the battery. Your AirTag will play a sound.
  3. Hold your AirTag near your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, so tap Connect.* If yous have multiple AirTags and meet "More than one AirTag detected", make sure that but ane AirTag is near your device at 1 fourth dimension. Demand help connecting your AirTag?
  4. Select an item name from the list, or select Custom Name to proper name your AirTag and choose an emoji. Then tap Continue.
  5. To annals your AirTag with your Apple ID, tap Continue again.
  6. Tap Done.

Now you tin can attach your AirTag to your item and see information technology in the Find My app.

* You can also prepare upwardly your AirTag in the Find My app. Tap the Items tab, and then tap Add Detail.

Change the name of your AirTag

  1. Open the Find My app, and so tap the Items tab.
  2. Tap the AirTag whose name or emoji you want to change.
  3. Scroll down and tap Rename Item.
  4. Select a name from the list or select Custom Name.
  5. Type a custom name for your AirTag and select an emoji.
  6. Tap Done.

If you can't set up upward your AirTag

  1. Make sure that your device is ready for setup.
  2. If the setup animation disappeared, press the side button or Slumber/Wake button on your iPhone to put your device to sleep. Then wake and unlock your iPhone. Await upwards to 15 seconds, and the animation should reappear.
  3. If you have multiple AirTags to set up, make sure that just one is near your device at i time.
  4. Remove and then supplant the battery in your AirTag.*
  5. If your AirTag still won't connect to your device, reset your AirTag.

Learn what to exercise if you come across a message that says the AirTag is connected to another Apple tree ID.

* Alert: AirTag, the battery cover, and the battery might present a choking hazard or cause other injury to pocket-size children. Continue these items abroad from small children.

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