Additionally, if someone finds something you lost, they can tap their phone against your AirTag and it’ll show them your contact information (and it works with any NFC-capable smartphone-not just iPhones). As long as its nearby any Apple device, it’ll continue to broadcast its location to your Find My app no matter where it is on earth which is pretty fantastic. Best of all, however, the ecosystem comes to your advantage with hundreds of millions of Apple devices building a global tracking network. “Precision finding” will tell you both the direction and distance to your tag down to the foot which is pretty cool. Tapping the tag in the Find My app will sound an alert on the Tag’s built-in speaker, but the real magic comes into play with newer phones (iPhone 11 and later) that have the U1 chip built-in. They’re compatible with any iOS device running iOS 14.5 or later. It’s a Bluetooth LE based tracker-just like Tile-but made by Apple. AirTags-they exist! These were originally rumored clear back in mid-2019 and leakers said they’d be coming just about every event since then to no avail. So, let’s get into it.įirst, let’s get the quick stuff out of the way. The large majority of it looks awesome and we’ll talk about that-but they’ve also left me with a lot of questions. Apple just wrapped up their Spring Loaded event and they announced a lot.
