Apple will release the AirTag 2 in mid-2025
By ForGeeks Back in October, TF International’s Ming-Chi Kuo said that the second-generation AirTag tracker would go into mass production in the fourth quarter of this year. An Apple analyst told us that the next version of the AirTag will hit the market in 2025. In addition, Kuo said at the time that Apple plans to create an ecosystem around Vision Pro’s spatial computing capabilities, and AirTag 2 will be integrated into that new platform.
Apple plans to create an ecosystem around Vision Pro’s spatial computing capabilities, and AirTag 2 will be integrated into that new platform.
Today, another Apple insider weighed in on the AirTag 2 discussion. That’s Bloomberg’s chief Apple correspondent Mark Gurman, who wrote a bit about the second-generation tracker in today’s Power On newsletter. According to Gurman, the new AirTag will be codenamed B589, and the product will be available in the middle of next year. The tech giant is reportedly currently conducting test trials of the next-generation AirTag with its Asian manufacturing partners.
The new AirTag will be available for sale in the middle of next year.
This is all interesting, but what can we expect from AirTag2 in terms of new and improved features? Gurman says Apple will equip the next AirTag with a new chip that will better track location.
Since the current AirTag model was released in April 2021, the device has gotten a bad reputation thanks to the creativity of some criminals using the AirTag for their own purposes. For example, carjackers have been known to hide the AirTag on the car they want to steal. After tracking the car during the day, it is stolen on a dark night. Others use AirTag to track people.
In the just-released iOS 17.5 update, Apple added a new Cross-Platform Tracking Detection feature that will notify an iPhone user if it detects an unauthorized Bluetooth tracker that isn’t registered to the iPhone owner and is traveling with them, regardless of which mobile operating system the tracker is paired with.
Apple added a new Cross-Platform Tracking Detection feature that will notify the iPhone user if it detects an unauthorized Bluetooth tracker that isn’t registered to the iPhone owner and is traveling with them, regardless of which mobile operating system the tracker is paired to.
