After 5 Years, Apple Finally Upgrades the AirTag

Apple's AirTag has go the de facto “Bluetooth tracker” since its 2021 debut, upending established players similar Tile. Now, Apple is yet upgrading the hardware. The second-generation AirTag inactive costs $29 for one, and $99 for a four-pack, and it's disposable today.

It's powered by the second-generation Ultra Wideband spot (U2), which Apple has already employed successful caller iPhone and Apple Watch models. It improves the quality to find the tag's nonstop determination erstwhile utilizing Apple's Precision Finding mode, with up to 1.5 times greater range. You tin assistance your iPhone, and you'll person visual, audio, and haptic feedback arsenic the instrumentality guides you to your AirTag. Apple says Precision Finding is present disposable connected the Apple Watch Series 9 oregon aboriginal and the Apple Watch Ultra 2 oregon newer.

The second-gen AirTag is 50 percent louder than its predecessor, and Apple says it tin beryllium heard from doubly arsenic acold distant arsenic before; there's a caller chime, too. Apple has besides upgraded the Bluetooth spot for amended range. There's nary notable upgrade to artillery life, arsenic Apple inactive cites “more than a year," though the artillery remains user-replaceable.

Apple requires caller owners of the second-gen AirTag to person an iPhone oregon iPad moving the latest iOS 26 mentation (you besides request an Apple Account and person to beryllium signed into iCloud). The bundle features stay the same—everything is powered by Apple's Find My feature, which leverages a web of Apple devices to assistance you find and way your AirTag. After the archetypal AirTags were being exploited to way people, Apple deployed tracking alerts (and worked with Google to alteration these alerts connected Android), and those aforesaid capabilities are present successful the 2nd generation.

Apple says the second-gen AirTag is made from 85 percent recycled integrative successful its enclosure, with 100 percent recycled uncommon world elements successful the magnets, and 100 percent recycled golden plating successful the printed circuit boards, not to notation 100 percent fiber-based insubstantial packaging. The AirTag retains the aforesaid signifier arsenic its predecessor, meaning you won’t person occupation stuffing it into the aforesaid AirTag cases, cardinal rings, and different accessories. Apple adjacent has a caller mentation of its authoritative Key Ring accessory made from its FineWoven worldly to lucifer your FineWoven iPhone 17 case.