Ultion KeyTag in five colors.
Now look, anyone can lose a key. It’s not just down to being tired and emotional or some other restriction on your peak capabilities. You can forget your key in a cab because you’re distracted when paying—did you tip enough or will they hate you? Or it can fall out of your pocket when you’re sprinting to catch your runaway dog. Whatever.
The point is that once you’ve lost it, a key is remarkably hard to find. That cab is long gone and your dog took less of a straight path than you remember.
Recent data from Transport for London says that it finds 13,000 keys lost on the London transport network every year. So, what’s the solution?
Well, you could buy an AirTag—the ingenious tracker from Apple that leverages Apple products’ ubiquity to help you locate it through the iPhone’s Find My app.
But note that you need to buy a key ring to attach to the AirTag, which can quickly bulk up what’s in your pocket.
A brilliant alternative is the Ultion KeyTag. The only other requirement is that you have an Ultion lock. If you have one of these, then you can get an Ultion KeyTag to unlock it. The key works as though it has an AirTag built into it, but it adds less weight and size to the equation.
It works with any Ultion lock, not just its smart lock range, which adds to the versatility.
Ultion KeyTag waiting to be found.
And it works in exactly the same way the AirTag is, that is, when placed in lost mode it silently sends a message that any passing Apple device like an iPhone or iPad can pick up and send back to the network, without alerting the owner of the phone or tablet. That message is then sent to your iPhone, iPad, Mac or a device that has access to iCloud.com. And this means you can track down the key.
Find My is very effective and reunited me with my lost iPad Air last summer, for instance.
Get close to the Ultion KeyTag, within Bluetooth range, and you can even make it emit an audible sound thanks to the built-in alarm.
Oh, and if you need any other guidance to find it, the KeyTag comes in a range of colors, and some are even fluorescent options, which can only help further.
The KeyTag comes in the form of a new door key, and costs $48 (£39), or $122 (£99) for three. It’s very lightweight, just 2g including the key and the battery. It’s powered, as the AirTag is, by a user-replaceable CR20232 watch battery.
Available from ultion.co.uk.
