After four years of loyal service, Airtag is preparing to bow out for a new generation at the start of the 2025 school year. Probably named Airtag 2, this model would wear several notable improvements, correcting its gaps while providing real developments for user experience. According to rumors, three major new features could change everything!
Improved connectivity to locate the AirTag 2 more easily
The main evolution of AirTag 2 would take place around a central element of object trackers: connectivity. For this, Apple would go to a second generation of Ultra Wideband (UWB) chip.
Thanks to the latter, the AirTag detection range would reach up to 60 meters – against 15 meters for the first generation. In short: a lost object could be located by the iPhone, Mac or even iPad within a much larger department, thus reinforcing the chances of finding it.
Another improvement linked to this evolution, the arrival of a named function “Precision Finding”either “Precision search” In French, offering more fair indications on the direction to be followed and the exact distance to find its Airtag 2.
To this would be added improved Bluetooth connectivity thanks to optimizations linked to iOS 26, guaranteeing a faster, stable and fluid connection with the apparatus from the firm to the apple nearby.
A redesigned autonomy: Apple would improve battery management
On the side of autonomy, Apple would not make so many big changes. Indeed, we would stay on a CR2032 battery. No integrated battery therefore, which should give similar autonomy to the first Airtag of the name: a year.
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However, Apple would update battery management by incorporating an intelligent alert system on the Airtag 2. The objective: to warn users much earlier, and especially on several occasions. We would thus be entitled to a notification when the energy level of the battery is low, and a second when it is very low.
A solution that could change everything for users who tend to ignore the warning encouraging to change the Airtag battery. Negligence can generally lead to the definitive loss of the object to which the connected tracker was hung.
More security and confidentiality to avoid drifts
With the drifts of the first generation of Airtag, in particular not consented monitoring, Apple would have learned from its errors by significantly strengthening its protective mechanisms.
This would first go through the integration into the AirTag 2 of a speaker much more difficult to deactivate-the latter being easily removed by certain malicious people to make the device undetectable.
In parallel, a faster and more precise notification system would be put in place to warn a person if an unknown Airtag follows it. Again, the goal would be to reduce the cases of unconted hunt, here by accelerating the detection speed.
Apple also works with Google in a common standard of inter-apparels detection in order to strengthen the efficiency of these alerts, even on Android. The whole thing is part of the traditional privacy protection strategy of the apple firm, a long -standing spearhead for its products.
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