Sketchers' New Kid's Shoe Has a Spot to Hide an AirTag

Jul 31, 2025 09:21 PM - 9 months ago 322817

Parents are ever looking for ways to support tabs connected their children, and now there's a caller 1 — unless your kids perpetually return their shoes off.

Skecher's has introduced a caller statement of kids' shoes called "Find My Skechers," successful an evident motion to Apple's "Find My" technology, and the styles are compatible pinch Apple AirTags. The shoes person a hidden compartment pinch a screw-tight screen nether the footbed padding.

But do they break Apple's anti-stalking protocol? Apple's Terms of Service say: "AirTag was designed to thief group find their individual belongings, not to way group aliases different person's property, and we condemn successful the strongest imaginable position immoderate malicious usage of our products."

Apple Insider reports that the "Find My Skechers" shoes astir apt wouldn't break Apple's anti-stalking measures. Apple installed built-in information alarms that alert an iPhone personification if an AirTag owned by personification other is moving pinch them, and since the Skecher shoes are for kids, they'd apt beryllium purchased by the aforesaid personification arsenic the AirTag.

Related: She Tracked Her Missing Luggage With an Apple Device — Straight to an Airport Employee's Home

TechCrunch further notes that parents are already utilizing the exertion to support an oculus connected their kids done a rash of AirTag-compatible products connected the marketplace (bracelets, knock-off Crocs Jibbitz). And AirTags don't person built-in GPS and alternatively usage Bluetooth, which only gives an estimate of a location by signaling adjacent Apple devices.

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