Your AirTag battery solely lasts a 12 months — this is how one can verify it

In the event you’ve used an AirTag for lower than a 12 months to trace your baggage, you could not notice that the unique AirTag battery solely lasts for roughly one 12 months.

In the identical approach you can exchange your iPhone battery, you too can exchange your AirTag battery when it dies.

When your battery is getting ready to demise, Apple will notify you through the FindMy app in the event you’ve related your AirTag throughout the app. You may as well proactively verify the battery size throughout the app by opening the app and figuring out your AirTag below the “Gadgets” tab on the backside.

As a substitute of changing the AirTag itself when the time comes, you may exchange the battery for much less cash. Then, you may proceed utilizing the AirTag. In accordance with Apple, you need to search for a CR2032 lithium 3-volt coin battery that states “Appropriate with Apple AirTag.”

Appropriate batteries embrace the Panasonic CR2032 and Energizer CR2032 batteries, each of that are at the moment out there on Amazon for $8 (for a pack of 10 and 6, respectively). You may as well discover appropriate batteries at most electronics shops and drugstores, per Apple.

If you cannot discover a battery in time or would like to switch your AirTag, one tag prices $28. Or, you will get a four-pack for $80. Additionally, we routinely see AirTags on sale.

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In any other case, if you already know you have had your AirTag for roughly a 12 months, contemplate buying a pack of substitute batteries for lower than $10.

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