AirTag 2 May Debut at iPhone 17 Event Next Week With These Features

After much than a four-year wait, the long-awaited AirTag 2 could yet debut astatine Apple's yearly iPhone adjacent week, if a erstwhile rumor is inactive accurate.


From a 9to5Mac report successful June:According to reliable 9to5Mac sources, Apple is present aiming astatine a Fall release, apt putting its announcement astir the clip of the iPhone event, which usually takes spot successful September.Apple introduced the existent AirTag during its April 2021 event.

For those unfamiliar with the AirTag, it is simply a Bluetooth accessory that you tin connect to items similar a backpack and keys, and you tin past way the determination of those items successful the Find My app crossed the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and iCloud.com. Similar point trackers are sold by brands similar Tile, Samsung, Chipolo, and Pebblebee.

Below, we person recapped immoderate of the cardinal rumored AirTag 2 features. Apple's lawsuit begins connected Tuesday, September 9, astatine 10 a.m. Pacific Time.

AirTag 2: Rumored Features

The pursuing changes person been rumored:

• A second-generation Ultra Wideband chip, for up to 3× longer point tracking range compared to the existent AirTag


• A much tamper-proof built-in speaker — an anti-stalking information improvement


• "Very low" artillery beingness alerts, alongside existing "low" artillery alerts


• Vision Pro/spatial computing integration of immoderate benignant — details unclear

In a November 2024 edition of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said the AirTag 2 would "look akin to the existent model." In that newsletter, helium besides said the AirTag 2 volition "certainly not" diagnostic a rechargeable battery, suggesting that the accessory volition instrumentality with a CR2032 aka "coin" artillery that needs to beryllium replaced each twelvemonth oregon so.
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