If you thought bag-pocalypse or luggage-ageddon was over when summer 2022 closed, after airlines mislaid and misdirected oceans of suitcases and checked items, think again. The recent severe weather that crossed left “thousands of pieces of luggage…strewn about airport lobbies,” as one newspaper reported.
Apple’s AirTag and third-party Find My items that use the same crowdsourced network can be your best friend when a bag goes astray. Hundreds of news articles cropped up in 2022 about savvy travelers dropping one of these trackers in a bag and finding their needle in a haystack, allowing them to be reunited with their clothes, gifts they were bringing to their destination, or other valuables and necessities.
While there are significant ongoing about the use of AirTags to track put a tracker in your own bag, the encryption method Apple employs to maintain the anonymity of devices means you’re not turning yourself into a target.
