Precision Finding on Apple Watch Doesn't Work With the Original AirTag

A caller Apple enactment document and our ain investigating has confirmed that Precision Finding connected the Apple Watch Series 9 and aboriginal and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and aboriginal works with the AirTag 2, but the archetypal AirTag is not supported.


Precision Finding tin pb you to the nonstop determination of an point with an AirTag attached to it, by showing you a directional arrow and your region distant from the point connected a compatible iPhone, and present connected a compatible Apple Watch too.

Precision Finding already existed connected the supra Apple Watch models for uncovering an iPhone 15 oregon newer, but determination was nary Precision Finding connected the Apple Watch for uncovering an AirTag until now. As we confirmed, however, Precision Finding connected the Apple Watch inactive does not enactment with the first-generation AirTag released successful 2021.

To usage Precision Finding to find a second-generation AirTag with a compatible Apple Watch, the ticker indispensable beryllium moving watchOS 26.2.1 oregon later.

How to acceptable up the feature, according to Apple:

1. On your Apple Watch, spell to Control Center.


2. Scroll to the bottommost and pat Edit.


3. Tap the Add button.


4. Scroll down to Find Items.


5. Tap Find Items, past pat Find AirTag.


6. Tap Choose, past take an item.


7. Tap the Done button, past pat Done.

How to usage the feature, according to Apple:

1. On your Apple Watch, spell to Control Center.


2. Scroll down and pat the Find AirTag button.


3. Follow the on-screen instructions and determination astir your abstraction until your Apple Watch connects to your AirTag.


4. Follow the region and absorption accusation connected your Apple Watch. When you are adjacent to your AirTag, the ticker surface turns green.

If you person an archetypal AirTag, you tin inactive find it with Precision Finding connected an iPhone 11 oregon newer.

With the AirTag 2, Precision Finding works astatine distances up to 1.5× farther distant from an point compared to the archetypal AirTag, but this longer scope requires an iPhone 15 oregon newer, Apple Watch Series 9 oregon newer, oregon Apple Watch Ultra 2 oregon newer.

To larn much astir the caller AirTag, work our coverage of Apple's announcement.
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