Apple shares details of AirTag firmware updates - AppleInsider

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Apple has updated its point tracker's firmware doubly since November but didn't disclose what the updates entailed. Now, a caller AirTag enactment nonfiction lets users spot what's changed.

Apple updated the AirTag connected November 10 to version 2.0.24. The update, detailed by Apple and spotted by 9to5Mac, enables Precision Finding to assistance users find an chartless AirTag pursuing them. The AirTag besides volition emit a noise.

The diagnostic is portion of Apple's commitment to forestall radical from utilizing an AirTag to stalk others.

Apple also updated AirTag connected December 12 to mentation 2.0.36. This update fixed a bug wherever the accelerometer was not activating successful definite scenarios.

While users typically person ways to update devices' firmware manually, determination is nary specified enactment for AirTag. Instead, users person to hold for it to hap connected its own.

You tin cheque the firmware mentation of your AirTag via the Find My app connected your phone. Once successful Find My, pat the applicable AirTag, past pat the artillery icon for the AirTag — this volition show the serial fig and the firmware version.