Hi everyone aaron here for Zollotech and with the release of apple's new air tag to allow us to
track different things whether that be a backpack our keys maybe a camera or something else i had
quite a few questions as to whether or not it's waterproof how durable is it and also what's it
like to use with an older phone that doesn't have the new u1 chipset in it that allows for precision
tracking can you use it with an older phone so i have an iphone 6s plus here we'll try that and
first let's go ahead and pair this and then we'll try out the other things i mentioned already such
as water durability so you just unwrap it when you get a new one i showed this in the unboxing video
pull this little piece out of the air tag and it activates makes a little noise you bring it
close to your iphone and now it lets you pair it just like it was an airpod airpod pro or airpod
max so we'll go ahead and hit connect it says what do you want to name it we'll name this one
water test since we're going to test it in water we'll hit continue and let's name it water test
we'll hit continue and then we can choose an emoji let's choose water
there we go that one will work and let's hit continue now the air tag is set up it's ready to
go and according to apple as far as its durability with water and dust proof it's ip67 rated which
means it can withstand a maximum depth of 1 meter for up to 30 minutes they say it's water and dust
and splash resistant so we'll see how it works under water maybe a foot down or so now the way
this is sealed is with a little back cover here with a with a battery underneath if we push down
and turn it we can take the battery out and you'll see there's not really a rubber seal in here that
you can see so let's pull the battery out you'll see this is the inside of it so it's just plastic
and so this seal is supposed to be enough to keep it safe so put the battery back
in you'll see right here there's not a seal around the outside edge or anything the batteries in
place we'll put the air tag in and then you push down on the top makes some noise and then it's
locked into place so it's sealed you can see the outside edge here it's got a little not a gasket
but a little lip around the edge and it's sealed and ready to go so let's put this down now with
the iphone 6s plus if we go to find my and we take a look at the new one that says water test
we scroll up we've got some options we can play a sound we have notifications notify when found
lost mode or rename or remove item if we go to the same app on the iphone 12 pro max you can see
it also has find nearby so with that u1 chipset we can actually find it from about 30 to 50 feet away
it will guide us toward the device so that's the difference between these other than that they can
do the exact same thing so if you want to use it with an older device you can now as far as water
durability well let's go ahead and check this and see how it holds up in a lake for maybe 30 minutes
and an hour we'll go past that 30 minutes that they say at one meter see if we drop it in one
to three feet of water or a meter of water and see how it holds up now to make sure we don't lose the
air tag itself in deeper water let's go ahead and place it in the air tag loop here we'll snap it in
place and this is silicone so it should withstand this okay so let's go ahead and test it now now i
have the air tag here and as you can see it's kind of scraped up and that's because it was rubbing up
against the camera lenses of the 12 pro max in my pocket and you can see where it rubbed up against
the iphone a little bit right there you can just wipe that off but it's definitely something that
will wear it if it's rubbing up against glass for example let me go ahead and play a sound
now you can hear it and i'm going to place it in the pond right here about a foot under water
we'll see if we can hear the sound and also come back after a half hour and see how it's doing
so now it's down here in the muck let me go ahead and play a sound see if we can hear it
you might have seen the air bubbles but i can't hear it at all now we couldn't hear a sound from
that but let's go ahead and tap on find nearby and also you'll see it is 6 45 pm so let me go ahead
and hit find nearby and it says searching for signal try moving to a closer location it's under
the water right there where that stick is right there so you can kind of see it under the water
so it's not actually able to find it under the water that well so if you dropped it in water
you may not be able to see it or hear it so let me go ahead and we'll wait a half hour so
we'll come back at about 7 15 and see if it still works now while we're waiting for
the other one for about 30 minutes or so i figured we'd test this one maybe just drop
it into the water so let's play a sound i just named it car so you can hear it
so let's just drop it right there and let's see how it does let me see if i
can play a sound so we'll go ahead and play a sound you can hear it just a little bit
now i hit find the air tag and you'll see it's using the u1 chip to sort of
figure out where it is and it vibrates as i get closer
and it sees it so it's definitely seeing it we can hit
play make a noise i can hear it a little bit but i can't do that with the other one
so here is the air tag right after i brought it out of the water i haven't taken it out of
the case yet you can see it's a little bit wet still let's go ahead and see if it plays a sound
and it's working
so it works if we find nearby you'll see it locates it so even though it wasn't
locatable underwater it seems to have held up okay let's see if any water got in it at all
so take the top off here and so as you can see it doesn't appear that water got inside it at all
it looks pretty good let me put it back together now as you can see it's a little scratched up
like i said from being in my pocket bumping up against an iphone but it works quite well
after being underwater for about a half hour in about a foot of water but don't expect to find
it as you can't hear it it actually couldn't locate it and it was only about a foot so
if you drop it in anything that's a little bit deep you may not be able to find it unfortunately
otherwise though i'd say it's a win it held up well and it survived so maybe if it was in a
meter of water and you could see it you could grab it and it would still work but again i couldn't
locate it when it was underwater if it's too far down so hopefully that will help you get a better
understanding of the durability overall of an air tag the battery is rated for about a year or so
so as long as it doesn't get too wet or anything it should be okay for that amount of time and
then you can replace the battery if need be let me know though in the comments below if you've
actually picked up an air tag what you think of them are you using them or do you have no
need for them obviously there's other products out there like tile and everything else but this works
really well with all the different iphones around and you don't need a separate app to
actually use it so again let me know what you think about it in the comments below and also
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