Not that I’m aware of, for the reasons you mentioned. I believe you can now share AirTag locations with family members and that’ll count towards ‘checking in’ and not beep but nothing for sharing with someone outside of family members.
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Is there a way to temporarily disable tracking for circumstances such as this when you loan your keys or something?
I suppose not, or people would disable it and then re-enable it later, unless they require proximity or some other protection against that.
Not that I’m aware of, for the reasons you mentioned. I believe you can now share AirTag locations with family members and that’ll count towards ‘checking in’ and not beep but nothing for sharing with someone outside of family members.