AirTags Low Vision: Setting It Up

Hello, my name is Douglas Walker. Today is all about AirTags. Yeah, AirTags are a super easy way of keeping up with all of your stuff.

Now, an AirTag is about the size of a quarter, and there are tons of accessories that will allow you to attach one to your keys, put one on your cane or umbrella, or even slip one in your purse or backpack. Then you're all set. You'll use your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to track down all of your favorite items from right there in your Find My app.

Okay, first things first, we'll want to make sure that we're running Apple's latest software. We'll also want our location services, our Find My, and our Bluetooth settings to be turned on. And of course, we'll find those things in our Settings app. Okay, how about we jump right in and check out how to set up a brand new AirTag.

All right, if our AirTag is new, when we first remove its plastic wrapping, we'll hear our AirTag play a little chime or sound. Yeah, just like that. Then we'll simply hold our AirTag near our device and a little pop-up menu will appear here at the bottom of our screen. Then, we'll simply tap our Connect button.

Great, a Name AirTag screen will appear. Now, Apple has already given us a lot of item names to choose from, and we can scroll up or down to choose an item name from our list here. Or, if we select Custom Name, here at the bottom of our list, we can type in our own item name if we like. Yeah, I'm always misplacing my backpack, so how about we move back to our Backpack item.

And, great, so we'll just go ahead now and tap our Continue button, so we'll just tap Continue. All right, we have been given an Apple ID verification screen and we'll go ahead and just tap Continue to register our AirTag with our Apple ID and we'll tap Continue. And we are loading here.

All right, our AirTag made a little chime sound. I love it, just one more step and we're all done. Okay, here, we're given an AirTag information screen with some really great hints. We're told that an arrow can point us right to our AirTag.

We're told we can use our iPhone to have our AirTag play a sound, which is super helpful. And we're also told that we can view our AirTag in our Maps app if we like, and we can get directions right to it.

Now, we actually have more workshops in this series that show us how to do all of these things and more, so you're really going to want to check those out. Now, we do have two more buttons here. We have a View in Find My app button and we have a Done button.

You know, both of these buttons will actually finish our set up process. So, how about we go ahead and tap our View in Find My app button and check out where we'll find all of our items. Okay, we'll just tap it here.

Great, our Find My app has opened right in our Items tab. And we find that Douglas's backpack, yeah, that would be me, are right here in our items list.

And, hey, there you go. That pretty much covers how to set up a brand new AirTag. I tell you, sometimes I feel like I spend half my day looking for things. Well, not anymore. With my Apple AirTags, I just grab my iPhone and easily find all of my favorite items. Again, my name is Douglas Walker, take care, and I'll see you next time.