How to track your luggage — or anything else — with AirTags

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Apple’s little tracking devices are surprisingly handy for travel. | Illustration by William Joel / The Verge

This summer, we made the tactical error of visiting extended family in Europe. As the trip approached, we noted with growing concern headlines of airport chaos, long security lines, and mountains of lost baggage. Then a friend we had been planning to meet in Amsterdam chose to drive 12 hours from Warsaw rather than risk a two-hour flight. Two days before our flight out of Schiphol — and possibly influenced by the fact that we managed to leave both our phones in a seatback pocket the year before — a local friend strongly recommended we buy some AirTags for our luggage, just in case.

I may be the last person on Earth to realize you can use trackers to keep track of things, but I have to admit the premise is solid. All the stores nearby...

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