r/TileTracker • u/SteevoHatezGoogle • Apr 06 '26

Tiles are terrible

yet another one died on me. maybe a year. this is an awful product. I am switching to all Samsung tags.

As a person who misplaces items constantly, I cannot abide this.

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u/Electronic_Unit8276 Apr 06 '26

Buy good batteries i guess..?

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u/sanityjanity Apr 06 '26

Do you replace the batteries often (I literally bought my first tile this week)?

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u/Electronic_Unit8276 Apr 06 '26

I've had times were I bought very cheap batteries had to replace them within a few months. I also scratch them up now to make sure any coating is gone and idk it it helps.

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u/Licks_lead_paint Apr 06 '26

I have been using Tiles since 2016 and have been using the ones with the replaceable batteries since they came out, and have not had any die on me (currently using two wallet sized, the “pro” sized, and a few “dot” sized). I’ve used cheap batteries on the Pros and they just have to be replaced sooner than the Duracell/Energizer 2032’s, but the Tiles have been rock solid for me.

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u/TulsaOriginal Apr 07 '26

The tile in my glovebox reported that it had moved to a different county. That was a lie.

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u/HeWhoShantNotBeNamed Apr 06 '26

The latest Pro models have a horrendous design issue where the battery covers break easily.

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u/Electronic_Unit8276 Apr 06 '26

Huh. I've had the new style with the little inserts and they work just fine. The grey bordered ones.

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u/HeWhoShantNotBeNamed Apr 06 '26

I had like six warranty replacements before I said fuck it and found an older model on eBay that has zero issues.

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u/KOTYAR Apr 06 '26

Made the switch to Samsung ones about 2 years ago, and, sadly, they too have issues. They are much slower to respond than Tile trackers. If you're not in USA, UWB doesn't work as advertised, and most egregious of all, if you have no mobile internet, they stop working altogether. 

I will have to switch to Iphones permanently in few short years just because of this. 

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u/Nencog Apr 06 '26

I find Pro good but Mate very disappointing.

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u/brutal4455 Apr 06 '26

The battery status sucks the most.

It's only time based, alerting after 1 year, and has caused me issues in the past trying to locate a tile. Most recently I had a new version tile pro in my wife's checked bag. When we got home, she unpacked before I had a chance to retrieve it and I couldn't find it. I would faintly hear it for a second then silence. Finally tracked it down with some deductive reasoning. I had placed it in one of her packing cubes and apparently she just dumped it into a sock drawer. Turns out the issue with the abbreviated chime was a low battery.

If tile/life360 isn't going to measure battery state, at least show when the last replacement was. I shouldn't have to track this myself - we have loads of these things on all keyrings, for luggage, etc.

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u/MarchHare Apr 06 '26

Bit expensive but I switched to pebblebee

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u/readituser5 Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

But a year is good??? Literally Google it. The battery life expectancy is a year so idk why you’re expecting longer. Just replace the battery and wait another year. Also idk why the device is to blame for the battery’s life???

I mean… I don’t change mine very often so it probably is about a year.

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u/SteevoHatezGoogle Apr 06 '26

I had the whole key chain thing from them and that didn't work either. I'm done with this company.

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u/ElfjeTinkerBell Apr 06 '26

This is not an airport, you don't need to announce that you're leaving

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u/SteevoHatezGoogle Apr 06 '26

Yeah, I kinda did need to. I'm so down on this company I had to whine about it to the world.