Tested again and again: Google's AirTag competitors are as unreliable as ever

Nothing will change if they don't make it opted in by default

This is disappointing, especially that Tile worked better than the other Android options. I was hoping that the new trackers would be a better option.

I've used Tile and they're okay, but occasionally buggy. I once deliberately left a Tile in another country and it would usually show the correct location, but occasionally report it as found near me. Support were in denial, claiming that I must have brought it with me, as if it could somehow go across the Atlantic and back by itself.

I do think that checking baggage is a poor test case though. The bags are probably far from any person's phone when begin transported.

I also wonder why they needed 4 phones to test. Wouldn't Tile and the pebblebe/chilplo trackers also work on the Samsung?