Apple hasn’t refreshed the AirTags since their 2021 launch, although they’ve grow to be probably the most standard merchandise monitoring merchandise. That is going to alter in 2025, and we expect the AirTags 2 within the coming months.
Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman initially stated that the next-generation AirTags would launch in the course of the yr (which is now), however we would have an extended wait. Latest info from 9to5Mac means that Apple will debut AirTags 2 in September at its iPhone launch occasion.
If Apple have been going to launch new AirTags in the course of the yr, we in all probability would have seen them launched at WWDC in June. That did not occur, so September is the subsequent possible goal date. Gurman did say just ahead of WWDC that the up to date AirTags are “practically prepared” to launch, and there’s a risk that AirTags 2 can be introduced through press launch moderately than at an occasion, so it is nonetheless unclear whether or not Gurman or 9to5Mac is right.
Rumors agree that new AirTags will not be far off, so anticipate to see them in some unspecified time in the future between July and September. If you happen to’re planning to purchase an AirTag, it is in all probability value holding off to see what Apple has in retailer.
There aren’t any rumors of an up to date design, so the AirTag 2 may look so much like the unique AirTag. We’re not anticipating a chargeable battery both, which is a little bit of a disappointment.
The AirTag 2 is anticipated to incorporate a second-generation UWB chip that improves monitoring vary. With the brand new expertise, it is possible for you to to trace an AirTag with Precision Discovering from as much as 3x additional away. The UWB 2 chip within the iPhone has a variety of roughly 200 toes, and the AirTag 2 may match that.
Apple is planning to make the speaker within the AirTag 2 tougher to take away, which is able to stop folks from pulling out the speaker and utilizing the machine for stalking functions. Alongside those self same anti-stalking traces, Apple plans to make the speaker louder than earlier than too.
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has steered Apple will integrate the next-generation AirTags with the Imaginative and prescient Professional for improved spatial computing, however it’s not fairly clear what function AirTags would play.
Pricing is just not anticipated to alter if there aren’t going to be notable new options, and battery life can also be more likely to stay the identical if Apple is sticking to the CR2032 batteries.
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