AirTag 2, the second-generation merchandise tracker, tipped for mid-2025 launch

Again in October, none apart from TF Worldwide’s Ming-Chi Kuo stated that the second-generation AirTag merchandise tracker would begin mass manufacturing through the fourth quarter of this yr. The extremely correct Apple analyst was telling us that the subsequent model of the AirTag will hit {the marketplace} in 2025. Moreover, Kuo stated on the time that Apple was planning on constructing an ecosystem across the spatial computing capabilities of the Imaginative and prescient Professional and AirTag 2 can be built-in into this new platform.

Right now, one other Apple insider threw his 2 cents into the AirTag 2 ring. That may be Bloomberg’s chief Apple correspondent Mark Gurman who wrote a bit in regards to the second-gen merchandise tracker in today’s Power On newsletter. In response to Gurman, the brand new AirTag can have a code variety of B589 and the product shall be accessible in the midst of subsequent yr. The tech large is claimed to be at the moment doing take a look at runs of the next-gen AirTag with its Asian manufacturing companions.

Within the simply launched iOS 17.5 replace, Apple added a brand new Cross-Platform Monitoring Detection characteristic that can notify an iPhone consumer if it detects a rogue Bluetooth merchandise tracker not registered to the iPhone proprietor transferring together with him no matter which cellular working system the tracker is paired with.