Apple’s subsequent AirTag is coming in 2025 with privateness enhancements

It’s been a couple of years since Apple first launched the AirTag, and whereas the tracker has undoubtedly turn into a helpful on a regular basis software for lots of consumers, there have additionally been considerations — and — over misuses of the gadget as stories of AirTag stalking have come to mild. With all of this in thoughts, Apple is reportedly constructing some privateness enhancements into its subsequent AirTag. Particularly, it’ll be extra tamper-proof, Mark Gurman stories on this week’s publication.

The second-generation AirTag, which Gurman stories is predicted to be launched mid-next 12 months, will likely be made so it’s harder to take away the speaker, he writes. Apple has applied features to curb unwanted tracking, together with sound alerts that may let an individual know there’s an unknown AirTag of their neighborhood, but it surely’s nonetheless comparatively simple to take away the speaker, which might make it much less noticeable. On high of the privateness tweaks, the brand new AirTag will even convey upgrades to vary and the onboard wi-fi chip, based on Gurman. However looks-wise, it shouldn’t be a lot completely different from the AirTag we’re used to.