Google Unveils $29 Pixel Tag to Take On Apple's AirTag

Google contiguous introduced the Pixel Tag, its reply to Apple's AirTag. Pixel Tag is Google's archetypal point tracker, adjacent though Google implemented an point tracking web 2 years agone that's been utilized by third-party devices.


The Pixel Tag is made from stainless steel, and it is IP67 water- and dust-resistant. There's a built-in talker that tin play a dependable erstwhile an point it's attached to is lost, and a fastener that causes a dependable to play connected a connected smartphone. An on-device fastener is 1 diagnostic that distinguishes the Pixel Tag from the ‌AirTag‌.

Pixel Tags person an oval signifier alternatively of a circular shape, and they don't travel with an attachment constituent and similar the ‌AirTag‌, necessitate an add-on accessory for adding to keys oregon bags. Like the ‌AirTag‌, the Pixel Tag uses a replaceable artillery that lasts for up to 1 year. It works with Android devices moving Android 9 oregon newer with Bluetooth 6, and tin beryllium tracked successful the Find Hub app.

Google added Bluetooth and Ultra Wideband to the Pixel Tag, truthful it supports a precision uncovering diagnostic erstwhile an point is mislaid adjacent but retired of sight. The Pixel Tag supports galore of the aforesaid functions arsenic the ‌AirTag‌, similar alerts erstwhile an point is near down and the enactment to stock point determination with aggregate people.


The ‌AirTag‌ relies connected Apple's Find My web erstwhile an point is retired of scope of its owner's device, and Google has a akin system. The Find Hub web taps into much than a cardinal Android devices for locating items.

Google has the aforesaid protections arsenic Apple, and Android devices nonstop alerts erstwhile an chartless tag is detected traveling with you. Unknown tracker alerts are cross-platform acknowledgment to a collaboration betwixt Apple and Google, truthful iPhone users volition get an alert if a Pixel Tag is adjacent and vice versa.

Google plans to sell Pixel Tags for $29 for 1 oregon $99 for four, which is the aforesaid terms arsenic the ‌AirTag‌ 2. Pixel Tags volition motorboat successful November 2026.
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