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AirTag (1st generation)

Apple announced one product on 30 April 2021: AirTag (1st generation).

It was the 1st of 6 dated moments the archive holds for 2021, 136 days after the previous one, 15 December 2020.

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AirTag (1st generation)

iPhone · iPhone accessories · discontinued 26 January 2026

AirTag is a tracking device developed by Apple. AirTag is designed to act as a key finder, which helps people find personal objects such as keys, bags, apparel, small electronic devices and vehicles. To locate lost or stolen items, AirTags use Apple's crowdsourced Find My network, estimated in early 2021 to consist of approximately one billion devices worldwide that detect and anonymously report emitted Bluetooth signals.

AirTags are compatible with any iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch device capable of running iOS/iPadOS 14.5 or later, including iPhone 6S or later (including iPhone SE 1, 2 and 3). Using the built-in U1 chip on iPhone 11 or later (except iPhone SE models, iPhone 16e and iPhone 17e models), users can more precisely locate items using ultra-wideband (UWB) technology. AirTag has been available since 2021.

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  1. AirTag (1st generation) · Wikipedia

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