- Now as we stay on track, the display will remain green.
If you veer off course, it'll turn black.
Back on track, green again.
You also get haptic feedback which you can feel.
Let's keep going, turn.
When you get to your destination,
lots of haptics and when you get right near it,
it lets you know you're here.
At it's recent Spring Loaded Event,
Apple announced a new product called AirTag.
They sent a few of them over for me to check out
along with the new deliciously purple iPhone 12.
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So let's open these up and check 'em out
as I tell you everything you need to know about AirTags.
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This is the product that's been rumored
for about a year and a half
and it's finally seeing the light of day.
AirTags are small, circular disks
that will allow you to track them
inside of Apple's Find My app on iOS, iPad OS and Mac OS.
You can also locate your items using iCloud.com/find.
As you can see, these little disks are pretty small.
There's a bunch of AirTag accessories from Apple,
as you can see here,
as well as from third party manufacturers.
The accessories make AirTags useful
for attaching to things like your key chain,
a bag handle or even curved surfaces
like the rods on a bike.
Of course you can also drop 'em in a purse,
backpack or luggage or really anything
that you want to be able to track.
Okay, let's set these up.
If you set up AirPods or a HomePod,
then you know how simple Apple makes this process.
For an AirTag, all you need to do is remove the battery tab
and then bring it close to your iPhone.
When the card appears at the bottom,
just tap on connect.
You can then choose one of the names Apple has here,
or give your AirTag a custom name.
Now that it's set up, you can track it in the Find My app.
Despite their small size, AirTags include a built in speaker
so they can make audible sound as well as an accelerometer,
a Bluetooth low energy radio and a user replaceable battery.
According to Apple, the battery life of an AirTag
is one year.
Once they've run out, you can just open it up,
put in a new CR2032 battery and they'll keep going.
Apple's Find My network
is approaching a billion Apple devices,
all of which can help you find a lost iPhone,
iPad and Mac in addition to the new AirTags
and it even works when your device is offline.
Any nearby device that is part of the Find My network
will securely relay the location of your lost AirTag
to iCloud which you can then see in the Find My app.
This information stays anonymous and end to end encrypted
and only you get to see the location of your item.
A device just needs to be within Bluetooth range
of an AirTag in order to send it's location
to the Find My network.
AirTags will show up in the Find My app
as I mentioned and will play a sound
when you attempt to locate them.
Each one is also equipped
with Apple's new U1 Ultra Wideband chip
which allows for extremely precise location tracking.
Now when you use them with an iPhone
with an Ultra Wideband chip in it,
you get access to a feature called Precision Finding
where the phone will lead you directly
to the AirTag location with visual, audible
and haptic feedback by combining the data
from the Ultra Wideband chip with input from the camera,
ARKit, the accelerometer and the gyroscope
to take you directly to your lost item.
Now let's say you do lose an item with an AirTag attached.
You can use the Find My app to put it in lost mode
which lets you get notifications when it's detected
but also lets you add a message and contact info
so that if someone scans the AirTag
with an NFC capable smart phone,
they can get whatever info you left
so that they can contact you, and to be clear,
scanning AirTags works with NFC capable smart phones
and that means they can be scanned by iOS
and Android devices.
So, here's how it looks when you scan with iOS
and here's how it looks when you scan with Android.
Oh and they're also IP67 water and dust resistant
which means they can survive in a maximum depth
of one meter of water for up to 30 minutes.
Apple is also allowing you to personalize AirTags
with free engraving if you order in the Apple Store app
or on their website.
You can add up to four characters to an AirTag
including selected emoji.
Okay I asked you guys what questions you had
about AirTags and the main theme was around privacy.
So let's talk on that for a moment.
Apple built privacy into all of it's products
and AirTags are no different.
First, only you can see where your AirTag is
and your location data and your location history
are never stored on the AirTag itself.
When a device relays the location of your AirTag
to the Find My network,
that device isn't given any information
about the location of your AirTag.
It reports it passively and anonymously.
No one, not even Apple, knows the location of your AirTag
or the identity of any device that helps locate your AirTag.
So on the flip side, if you walk by a lost AirTag
and your iPhone reports the location
to the Find My network, you won't be alerted
that there's a lost AirTag six feet away from you
and you also won't be identified in any way
as the person who located the AirTag.
Additionally, they're made to discourage unwanted tracking.
As Apple started at the event,
AirTags are made to keep track of items, not people.
So when you set up an AirTag,
it's registered to your iCloud account
so it knows who it's owner is.
So if your iOS device detects an AirTag
that isn't with it's owner
and it's instead traveling with you,
you'll get a notification.
You're then able to play a sound
on the unknown AirTag to locate it
and view information like it's serial number
and get instructions on how to disable it
by removing it's battery.
Additionally, an AirTag that's been separated
from it's owner for a period of time
will play a sound when it's moved
in order to alert you of it's presence,
even if you don't use an iOS device.
And again, that goes for devices that are separated
from their owners.
If you're in an airplane or crowded train
with several AirTags around you
that are all with their owners,
you do not have to worry about your phone
inundating you with notifications about them.
Now as far as accessories go,
Apple has created leather loop and keyring accessories
that you can slot the AirTag into
and several third parties
have also announced AirTag accessories today,
including Nomad, one of my favorite accessory makers.
Apple recently announced that third parties
will also be able to tap into the Find My app
and AirTags are just another way
the company is allowing people to locate things
using that Find My network.
You can pick up an AirTag on April 30th for $29 each,
or you can buy a four pack of AirTags for $99.
There is no extra fee to use them,
there's no monthly service fee or anything else like that,
just pay for them once and use them.
Pre-orders start on April 23rd
and I will leave a link in the description below
for you if you wanna pick them up.
So what do you think about Apple's new AirTag trackers?
Now that they finally arrived,
will you be picking any up and if so,
what will you use them for?
Let me know in the comments below
and I'll meet you there for further discussion.
I'll have more videos coming
on the rest of Apple's big Spring Loaded announcements,
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Until next time, thanks for watching as always guys,
I appreciate your support.
Until next time, thanks a lot for watching as always guys,
I appreciate your support.
I'm Andru Edwards and I will catch you in the next video