AirTag 2 Now Rumored to Launch in September or Later This Year With New Battery Feature

According to a 9to5Mac report this week, citing reliable sources, Apple is present readying to merchandise the AirTag 2 successful September oregon aboriginal this year. If so, the updated accessory could beryllium announced astatine the iPhone 17 lawsuit successful little than 3 months from now.


The study besides said that iOS 18.6 beta codification hints astatine the upcoming bundle update being compatible with the AirTag 2, erstwhile it is released.

Finally, the study said that the AirTag 2 volition supply alerts for some debased and precise debased artillery levels. You tin already spot if the existent AirTag's artillery level is debased successful the Find My app, but it sounds similar determination volition present beryllium 2 tiers of alerts.

9to5Mac speculated that this alteration could hint astatine the AirTag 2 featuring a rechargeable battery. However, successful a November 2024 variation of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said the adjacent AirTag would "certainly not" beryllium equipped with a rechargeable battery, suggesting that Apple volition instrumentality with a replaceable battery.

In that aforesaid newsletter, Gurman said that Apple was aiming to merchandise the AirTag 2 astir the mediate of 2025, which sounded much similar June oregon July. So, if 9to5Mac is close astir the accessory's motorboat timeframe present being September oregon aboriginal this year, past customers volition person to hold a small longer for it than expected.

Whenever it launches, the AirTag 2 is rumored to diagnostic up to 3× longer point tracking scope compared to the existent AirTag. Gurman expects the AirTag 2 to look akin to the existent model, but helium said the built-in talker volition beryllium much hard to remove, which would marque it harder to covertly stalk radical with the accessory.

Apple released the existent AirTag in April 2021, truthful it is present much than 4 years old. It debuted astatine an lawsuit alongside the iMac with the M1 chip, the iPad Pro with the M1 chip, a caller Apple TV, and a purple colour for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini.
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