I will be doing solo horseback riding soon and my mom wants me to have something on my person during the rides so she can check on me and my location without me needing to answer a text or phone call. It’s purely a safety thing and exclusively for me when I’m riding alone. Outside of riding, the tech will be turned off and stored with my riding stuff.
What would y’all do in this kinda scenario? I value the opinions of the people here in regards to tech more than the search results I was getting when I looked it all up.
if your mom is an apple user, an airtag? I am not familiar with the alternatives but the year old article could help you find a similar item (it compares tile, smart tag and a few others): https://www.androidauthority.com/bluetooth-trackers-android-samsung-galaxy-smarttag2-3539097/
I wouldn’t use an air tag because after about an hour or two of it being near you, it’s gonna start beeping/chiming as an anti-stalk type alarm, and that in horseback is a bad combo.
edit: Actually, apparently this chime delay is anywhere from 8 to 24 hours, so you might not come across it.
I’m not an expert in Apple products, but I am fairly certain those only work if an iPhone is in range so it would also depend on OPs phone or the phones of anyone around.
Yeah I don’t know that much about it either, but I thought they were just little gps devices. either way, OP didn’t say they wouldn’t have a phone, just that they were not trying to text or answer calls.