The Apple AirTag 2 is the second-generation Find My tracker for iPhone owners, with a longer Precision Finding range, a louder speaker, and new Apple Watch support compared to the original AirTag from 2021. The new tracker uses Apple’s second-generation Ultra Wideband chip (also found in the iPhone 17 lineup and Apple Watch Ultra 3) for the longer-range precision tracking. The 4-pack ships with four tags, each engravable with up to four letters or emojis. The AirTag 2 is splash-, water-, and dust-resistant with an IP67 rating.
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Precision Finding is the main upgrade over the original AirTag. The second-generation UWB chip lets your iPhone locate a lost tag from up to 200 feet away, compared to about 50 feet with the original AirTag. This means the indoor-finding feature works through more walls, across more floors of a house, and across larger spaces like an airport terminal or a long driveway.
A louder speaker on the AirTag 2 makes the sound easier to hear from further away. Apple rates the new speaker at 50% louder than the original, with twice the audible range. So when an AirTag is buried in a couch cushion, your winter coat pocket, or a checked bag at baggage claim, the chime carries far enough to find without holding the phone next to it. The speaker is also more firmly attached than the original, so it’s harder for someone to remove the chime to defeat anti-stalking alerts.
Apple Watch Precision Finding is new on the AirTag 2 and works with Apple Watch Series 9 or later and Apple Watch Ultra 2 or later. So you can walk around the house with your wrist instead of your phone, following the haptic and visual cues to a misplaced tag. This is useful when the phone is also missing or when you don’t want to carry it while searching through cluttered drawers or under furniture.
The AirTag 2 lasts about a year on a single CR2032 coin cell, which you can replace by twisting the back cover open. The same design from the original AirTag carries over, including the small coin-shaped body without a built-in keychain hole (Apple sells separate keyring accessories). Plus, the AirTag 2 works with an iPhone running iOS 26 or later, with the full Precision Finding upgrade requiring iPhone 15 or later (except the iPhone 16e) or the iPhone Air.
Apple’s Find My network is the main reason to pick an AirTag 2 over a third-party Bluetooth tracker. Every iPhone in the world acts as an anonymous relay for lost AirTags, which means a tag in a stolen suitcase or a wandered-off cat can phone home from almost anywhere with cell service. The 4-pack drops from $99 to $89 in this deal, working out to about $22 per tag.
