AirTags Screen Reader: Finding Items Further Away

Hello, my name is Douglas Walker. You know, when I'm out and about, it seems like I'm always double-checking to make sure I still have all of my stuff. Well, now if something happens to go missing, I no longer panic because I can easily find it with my AirTag. Yeah, AirTags are a super easy way of keeping up with all of your items.

An AirTag is about the size of a quarter and there are tons of accessories that will allow you to attach one to your backpack, put one on your keys or umbrella, or even slip one in your purse or luggage. 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 find items further away? Okay, let's say that I have been out and about today. I'm now back home and I suddenly discover that I no longer have my backpack. Well, after the initial shock, I realize that I can just locate my AirTag to find it, and like we said, we will find all of the items that we have placed our AirTags on right in our Find My app, so we will just swipe to our Find My app here.

Phone: Find My, double-tap to open.

Douglas: Yeah, and there it is, so we we'll just double-tap. Great, our Find My app is open and we will find all of our items in our items tab here in the bottom of our screen, so we will just touch our items tab here.

Phone: Tap our items tab, three of four.

Douglas: Yeah, and there it is, and we will go ahead and just double-tap here to find our list of items, and we'll double tap.

Phone: Selected items heading.

Douglas: Yeah, our items tab is open. We have been given a map of our location here at the top of our screen and just below that, all of our items are listed. Yeah, I have an AirTag on my keys and one in my wallet and of course, my backpack. All right, since my backpack is missing, we will just go ahead and swipe to our backpack item here, and we'll just right-swipe a few times.

Phone: Add button.

Douglas: And there's our add button if we wanted to add another AirTag and we'll just right-swipe until we quickly until we get to our backpack here. We'll right-swipe.

Phone: Douglas's wallet, Douglas's keys, Douglas's backpack.

Douglas: Great, and there's my backpack, so we'll simply just double-tap to open our backpack screen, so we'll just double-tap here.

Phone: Selected Douglas's backpack.

Douglas: Yeah, our backpack screen has open. Now, we still have our map here at the top and we've been given some options for finding our backpack here at the bottom of our screen. I tell you, this is super cool because we have been given a directions button and when we double-tap our directions, our Maps app will open and we will be given directions right to our backpack, so let's do it. We'll first right-swipe until we find our directions button here, and so we'll just right-swipe a couple of times.

Phone: Play sound off button.

Douglas: Yeah, and here's our play sound button. Of course, we can't make it play a sound because it's not nearby us right now, so we'll right-swipe one more time and we'll find our directions button here.

Phone: Directions, 6.5 miles, 14 minutes, button.

Douglas: Yeah, and here is our directions button and this is great. We are told the distance to our backpack and how long it will take us to get there, so we'll go ahead and just double-tap here and we'll double-tap,

Phone: Maps to Mockingbird LN.

Douglas: Great, our Maps app has opened and it looks like my backpack is at my friend's house. Yeah, that makes sense. You know, I probably call my friend and ask her to hold it for me, but if I wanted to go get it, I could just right-swipe to our go button here, then just double-tap to begin navigation.

Now, I think I know where I left it, but if I still can't find it when I get there, I might have to use my Find My app again and tap my nearby button to find it, but no worries, because we just so happen to have a workshop in this series called Finding Items Nearby that explains exactly how to do just that, so you're probably going to want to check out that workshop as well.

All right, that pretty much covers how to find an item further away. Yeah, it is such a relief to know that if one of my items happens to go missing, I can grab my iPhone and with just a few taps of the finger, easily get directions right to it. Again, my name is Douglas Walker, take care, and I'll see you next time.