Apple AirTags Leak: Revealed by the Company itself

They say that coincidences do not exist and those who cling to this phrase and the possibility that a company will leak its own products, will believe little in what has happened in the last hours with Apple. The Cupertino company mistakenly revealed the existence of the AirTag, its next accessories for finding lost and found. All this in a support video already removed in which a clear reference to these appeared.

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Apple’s AirTags are an open secret

Now talking about AirTag is not discovering America, since it is something that has been talked about in recent months and that had even been confirmed through the odd reference in the iOS code. However, Apple has continued without expressly ruling on it as usual with products it has not announced. Even when they announce the September keynotes, they avoid talking directly about a new iPhone, although everyone knows that this will be the star product that will be presented.

AIRTAGS DESVELADOS POR APPLE

The firm led by Tim Cook uploaded a video to its technical support YouTube channel in which they tried to explain how to reset an iPhone to factory settings. So far everything correct and without leaving the normality of this type of tutorials, however the video included a key clue to confirm again the existence of the AirTag. That explanation included the recording of an iPhone screen and in the part that indicated how to deactivate the “Search offline” function, a new legend could be seen mentioning that the device and AirTags could work without WiFi or mobile data .

This reference was first discovered by the Appleosophy blog, who gave the world exclusive on it. We do not know more data and there is not even a clear idea of when they will be presented , but everything indicates that we are getting closer. It is possible that at WWDC 2020, which will be online this year because of COVID-19, we may already have some official data from the company.

What do AirTags consist of?

As we say, we still do not have first-hand information to explain in great detail the design, characteristics and operation of the AirTag, but we can get an idea with what we know so far. These will be a series of key chains and / or stickers and they will allow us to locate them on an object, we can locate them on a map in the same way that we can now find an iPhone, iPad or Mac from the “Search” app.

The operation will be similar to that of the Tile accessories , manufactured by a company of the same name that already this week declared in a trial in which Apple, Google and Amazon are being investigated for monopolistic practices. This time they were annoyed with some new location adjustments introduced in iOS 13, but perhaps the existence of Apple accessories may have angered this company more.

Apple already paved the way for this new accessory last year with the launch of its new operating systems, since in them we saw a redesign of the “Search” application in which we can now locate both devices and our friends. We do not know if based on this they had already planned to launch their AirTag and for some reason they were delayed, but in the end we see how all the pieces fit together and are related to each other.