10 creative uses for a Bluetooth tracker

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Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority


Keeping tabs on your keys or your wallet might have been the primary uses for a Bluetooth tracker, but they have the potential to be used in much more imaginative ways. After the news story last month of the woman in Texas using an Apple AirTag to find out where her recycling was going, it got us thinking about other innovative ways to utilize the tracking abilities of the devices. Here are the ten most creative uses for a Bluetooth tracker that we came up with, with some practical and some fun options.

A tracker traditionally only lets you find your stuff if it’s within Bluetooth range of your phone, but many of the top devices now have options to locate the tracker when it’s further afield. That might be GPS capability or the option for the tracker to connect to another device or Wi-Fi network. The AirTag that the Texas woman used didn’t have GPS, but it could connect to a huge network of Apple devices around the world to provide an approximate location.




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