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  • Document the two routes, and the device the app registers The app can read tags out of an Apple account directly now, so every page that assumed "export a zip on a computer, import it on your phone" described one of two routes as though it were the only one. **How-To:-Get-AirTags-into-App** now forks on what the reader has rather than on what they are willing to do - which was the framing that excluded people whose tags were never on an Apple account at all. It also states the distinction the rest of the wiki kept getting wrong: reading tags out of an account happens once and must be done as the owner, while locating them afterwards only needs some signed-in account. That is why a zip somebody else exported for you works, and why OpenHaystack tags work despite having no owning account. **Home** had the same assumption in its prerequisites and in a linear 1-2-3-4 setup sequence with no path for the iCloud route. Its "the Apple account you choose to use must be the account that owns the tags" was true of exactly one of the four cases. Three new pages: - **How-To:-Connect-Your-iCloud-Account** - the seven-step flow, including the device-passcode step that surprises people because it is not the Apple ID password - **How-To:-Share-Your-Tags** - the case that has no page at all: you own the tags, you have no computer, and somebody else wants to see them. The app exports a zip itself now - **What-This-App-Registers-On-Your-Apple-Account** - written for somebody arriving from account.apple.com weeks later, looking at a MacBook Pro they do not own. Findable by searching either serial, because that is the only string they can see - **How-To:-Export-Logs-From-The-App** - the instructions three other places were repeating inline **Screenshots are committed here rather than uploaded as attachments.** They are generated by a script, so the point is that regenerating one and committing it updates every page using it - which drag-and-dropping into the editor cannot do. They are laid out in tables, copying the Anisette pages, because a column of full-height phone screenshots is unreadable. `0PENTAGVIEWR` and `0PENTAGXPORT` are not the same kind of entry and the pages no longer say "do not remove them". The app's is its live session; the exporter's finished the moment your zip was written. Still stale, not touched here: How-To:-Install-App still tells people to choose an Anisette Server URL, which local Anisette removed, and two of its links point at the Anisette pages by their old un-prefixed names.

    @parawanderer parawanderer committed Aug 23, 2026