The second-gen model of Apple’s AirTag Bluetooth tracker, which had been anticipated to enter mass manufacturing within the fourth quarter of 2024, has been pushed again to 2025.
That’s in keeping with the extensively revered analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, at any price. Kuo was the pundit who initially claimed the AirTag 2 would go into manufacturing subsequent 12 months–and that it might type a part of the Imaginative and prescient Professional ecosystem–however he has now downgraded his prediction. In a tweet Wednesday, the analyst mentioned mass manufacturing had been “postponed to 2025.”
Kuo doesn’t provide any rationalization for the delay, nor any specifics about when in 2025 Apple will begin manufacturing the system. It’s price noting that the start of mass manufacturing comes a while earlier than a product goes on sale: The unique AirTags are understood to have begun mass manufacturing by September 2020 however weren’t launched till spring 2021. The second-gen AirTags might thus launch late in 2025, and even in early 2026.
It’s additionally unclear at this level how Apple will change the second-gen AirTag from its predecessor, though some have recommended that, at the side of the Imaginative and prescient Professional headset, it would allow customers to see its location in three dimensions utilizing augmented actuality. In a separate article, we talk about 7 methods Apple could make the AirTag higher.