Thus, in those cases, they tend to be grab and run, and you often notice immediately – before someone can inspect a bike and remove an AirTag.Īlternatively, if travelling, this just saves you from having to put an AirTag in a bike case as I usually do. Further, as I’ve long said, in fancy-bike theft (like this), you’re typically looking more at the scenario of someone grabbing it from a cafe you’re at, rather than a bike left on the street locked to a pole. They can use Bluetooth scanners to narrow it down, but may not understand the exact location. Especially in cases like this where most thieves have absolutely no idea that a power meter crankset can have an AirTag. While Apple and others will say it’s not for theft tracking, the reality is that it very much is. Certainly, my wife can generally just see where I am on a ride by looking at my FindMy location based on my phone, but if for some reason I didn’t bring it, then this can still be seen by her. We have AirTags on our cargo bikes, and this allows us to easily see the location of the bike from either my account or my wife’s account. This is huge, because it finally allows you to share an AirTag with family members for devices. Also, remember that with iOS 17, you can now share AirTag’s with family members (including Find My devices). You can see it in your list of devices like any other AirTag, and it’ll show the serial number as well as battery status. Nobody wants an unexpected crank in their pocket.Īt that point you’re done. Obviously, this is a boilerplate Apple message for Find My devices, though, I suspect most people aren’t going to be stashing a crankset in somebody’s jacket pocket for stalking. It’ll find the power meter, and you can give it both a custom name and icon – just like any other AirTag:Īfter that it’ll warn you to only use your powers for good, not evil, and that it’s linked to your phone number in case the police need to get involved for stalking. Once that’s done, go into your Apple Find My app on your phone/iPad/etc, and search for a new 3rd party item: Pro Tip: You don’t need to take the battery out of the compartment, just simply twist and lift 3mm and insert again, that’ll do the trick. Then, go ahead and remove the battery and insert the battery again three times. In any case, to get things activated, you’ll take your 4iiii crankset, on the left side (non-drive side), and wake it up. Given that’s the same price as an AirTag, that seems exceptionally reasonable to me. Thus instead, 4iiii is offering a program that for $29 you can send in your compatible 4iiii power meter and get it upgraded. On the first item, 4iiii can’t offer a simple firmware update for existing users, due to the Apple Find My requirement that each item have a unique serial number etched into it. A couple of quick notes first:Ī) It requires 4iiii latest Precision 3+ units, which means existing units pods aren’t compatible by default (but wait, see below)ī) Requires an Apple iPhone, iPad, or iPod to activate In any case, let’s walk through how it all works. In the case of a power meter/bike, that’s likely less critical. This allows you to track these items just like any other AirTag, with the singular exception of not having UWB (Ultra Wide Band) support, which helps when you get really close to the object but still can’t visibly see it. This capability is called ‘Find My’, but is essentially the 3rd party program Apple has that allows companies to make a variant of an AirTag. 4iiii has become the first power meter company to add Apple’s Find My support to their devices.
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