It happens to all of us and it s not always a result vacation brain tile community member lowell wrote to us about how he used tile to find his lost car.
Can you use tile to track a car.
Turning a tile into a car tracker.
For example you can attach it to car keys and put your phone inside a car.
Your tile needs to be within the standard bluetooth range of a device that has location services in order to communicate its location to the app.
If you always have trouble locating your car in a large parking lot you can use one of tile s latest gadgets.
The good news is that they have a greater bluetooth range than conventional devices.
We thought we d share it along with some easy steps you can take to be like lowell and never lose your car again.
Place a dedicated tile in your car then run the tile app to remember where you parked.
Just like you would leave a tile in your car to find it in the parking lot you can do the same with your spouse s vehicle.
After purchasing your tile download the app and pair your device.
Find your lost car quickly with the tile app.
In this case your car keys and phone with the app will travel together.
These only have bluetooth functionality.
Track your car with tile s tracking device.
Catching a cheating spouse just got a lot easier.
This means tile cannot track objects as they move in real time unless there is a device within range moving with it.
Remember to always leave your tile app running in the background so that you can see where the last place your app found your tracking device.
While the idea of using tile to recover a stolen vehicle might be a stretch it can still be a helpful tool in finding a car if you ve forgotten where it is parked.
A tile is a small bluetooth device which you can put on your keychain for example so that you can find your keys using an app on your phone.
Your car keys and phone traveling together.
So there is only one way you can use a tile gps device for tracking a car.
Maybe you haven t thought of this way to use a tile but we have.