Tile presents Tile Premium, an elective, $3-per-month (or $30-per-year) subscription plan that covers as many Tiles as you personal. The service consists of free battery replacements shipped to you annually (for the Tile Mate and the Tile Professional), an prolonged guarantee (from one 12 months to 3), and SMS-based help. On the software program aspect, it presents a 30-day location historical past, limitless sharing of your Tile trackers’ places, and sensible alerts that allow you to know while you’ve left dwelling with none of your Tiles. (The final characteristic is predicated on getting into your house handle, and in our testing we might get a 3rd of a mile away earlier than receiving the alert, which isn’t tremendous helpful.) Apart from separation notifications, Apple doesn’t present any of those options with an AirTag. For $100 a 12 months, Tile additionally presents Premium Shield, which has the identical options plus a $1,000-per-year reimbursement for (most) registered objects which are misplaced. Tile Premium is an pointless expense for most individuals, however Premium Shield could also be definitely worth the funding should you’re monitoring one thing helpful.
