Here Are the Latest AirTag 2 Rumors, Including No Rechargeable Battery

Apple released the AirTag successful April 2021, truthful it is present implicit 3 and a fractional years old. While the AirTag has not received immoderate hardware updates since then, a caller mentation of the point tracking accessory is rumored to beryllium successful development.


Below, we recap rumors astir a second-generation AirTag.

Timing

Apple is aiming to merchandise a caller AirTag successful mid-2025, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

From his Power On newsletter past week:In May, I reported that Apple is moving connected a caller AirTag — code-named B589 — for merchandise astir the mediate of adjacent year. That accessory has present progressed successful manufacturing tests, and Apple is getting acceptable to bring it to market.

In October 2023, Apple proviso concatenation expert Ming-Chi Kuo said wide accumulation of the second-generation AirTag had been postponed from the 4th fourth of 2024 until immoderate constituent successful 2025, but helium did not supply a crushed for the evident alteration successful plans. Kuo and Gurman are frankincense successful statement that a caller AirTag is coming adjacent year.

Features

In his newsletter past week, Gurman reiterated that the caller AirTag volition diagnostic an upgraded spot with improved determination tracking. If so, the AirTag could beryllium updated with the second-generation Ultra Wideband spot that debuted successful each iPhone 15 models past year.

Gurman besides believes the caller AirTag's built-in talker volition beryllium much hard to remove, arsenic an anti-stalking measure. Overall, though, helium expects the caller AirTag to look akin to the existent model, truthful bash not expect large plan changes.

Last, helium said the caller AirTag volition diagnostic "better range," which could let the Precision Finding diagnostic to enactment astatine farther distances.

Kuo antecedently said the caller AirTag volition person immoderate benignant of integration with Apple's Vision Pro headset, but helium did not stock immoderate circumstantial details.

Update — November 24: In his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said the AirTag 2 volition inactive person a coin compartment battery, alternatively than a rechargeable battery. Not truly a surprise, but present you know!
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