AirTag 2 ships to users’ starting today, and YouTuber Joseph Taylor has already posted an unboxing video and teardown. Here’s what it revealed.
Joseph Taylor posts AirTag 2 unboxing and teardown video
Apple’s first AirTag launched nearly five years ago, and shortly after release it was used by bad actors for unintended purposes. Unwanted tracking, for example, has been an issue for years despite Apple releasing software updates to mitigate the issue.
With AirTag 2, Apple says it has built in “industry-first protections against unwanted tracking.” It specifically highlights two improvements: “cross-platform alerts and unique Bluetooth identifiers that change frequently.”
But based on a teardown by YouTuber Joseph Taylor, it seems there’s another change meant to make AirTag 2 less useful to bad actors: the speaker is harder to remove.
Near the end of the video, Taylor tries to remove the new AirTag’s internal speaker magnet and finds it much more difficult to take out than the first model.
He says that it’s “glued in quite well” and it takes multiple tools and more effort to take out—though Taylor still ultimately manages to remove it.
Last year Bloomberg reported that one of the AirTag 2’s privacy-focused upgrades might be making the speaker harder to remove. And this new teardown video seems to confirm that.
Hopefully this change, combined with Apple’s other efforts aimed to eliminate unwanted tracking, ultimately prove successful in reducing the misuse of AirTags moving forward.
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What stands out to you from the AirTag 2 teardown video? Let us know in the comments.
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