These Shoes Let You Track Your Child's Location With Apple's AirTag

Skechers precocious started selling a line of kids shoes that person a hidden compartment nether the insole for inserting Apple's AirTag point tracker.


The thought present is that parents tin enactment an AirTag successful the shoes, and past way the determination of those shoes (and the kid wearing them) successful the Find My app, which is disposable crossed the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and connected the web astatine iCloud.com.

The shoes tin supply parents with bid of caput by allowing them to support way of their child's determination successful public. If a kid gets mislaid successful a engaged buying mall, for example, the genitor could presumption their determination successful the Find My app. Or, a genitor could treble cheque that their kid is wherever they are expected to beryllium astatine a definite time, specified arsenic school.

In a YouTube ad shared this week, Skechers said that kids cannot consciousness the AirTag nether their feet portion wearing the shoes, making it a discrete solution.


These shoes could besides beryllium invaluable if a kid is kidnapped, but 1 caveat is that the kidnapper would person an alert connected their iPhone oregon Android smartphone if an chartless AirTag has been pursuing them for a small while. If the kidnapper is incapable to find the AirTag, it volition yet commencement playing a sound. This is simply a information diagnostic that is designed to forestall radical from utilizing the AirTag for stalking purposes.

Another happening to support successful caput is that if the kid does not person a instrumentality connected them, the AirTag volition trust exclusively connected the Find My web to nonstop its latest determination to iCloud. In different words, the kid volition request to beryllium astir different radical with Apple, Android, oregon different Find My web devices, successful an country wherever determination is cellular oregon Wi-Fi connectivity. If the kid is someway unsocial successful an country without immoderate net connectivity, the AirTag's determination would not update.

On its website, Apple says the AirTag should not beryllium utilized to way people, but a genitor utilizing the accessory to way a young kid is justifiable.

Alternatively, parents tin give their kid a cellular Apple Watch for determination tracking purposes. The kid does not request to person an iPhone.

The shoes are disposable for boys and girls in the U.S., Canada, and prime different countries. In the U.S., prices commencement astatine $52 arsenic of penning (an AirTag is not included). They travel successful a assortment of styles, and they are instrumentality washable, according to Skechers.
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