I’ve used Tile trackers since they first came out on my keys, wallet, backpack – anything I didn’t want to lose. They’ve always worked well enough, but they were a little big, and I didn’t love that the batteries weren’t replaceable. For those reasons, I decided to give Trackr a shot. It’s way smaller and runs on a watch battery. Those are the good parts. The bad part is, it didn’t work.
Yesterday I spent 15 minutes tearing apart my house looking for my keys because I could see in iOS settings the Trackr device was connected to bluetooth, it took that long to recognize it in the app. And this isn’t the first time something like this has happened. If the app can’t reliably detect when the device is connected – an issue I’ve never had with Tile – and trigger it to ring, it’s functionally useless to me.
I ordered a Tile Sport for my keys and will deal with the larger size and non-replaceable battery.
