John Siracusa

Yeah, follow that link.

There's a video of someone playing like the old AirTag versus the new one.

It sounds different.

I mean, I don't know if they did that on purpose or it's just a...

side effect of the louder chimey thing that they use to be louder and it just happened to be a different note uh but you will be able to tell the difference between the old ones and the new one as they chirp i was waiting for these because we have a couple air tags that are just like for whatever reason just don't hold the charge anymore like you know i have a ton of these little cheap little cheap coin batteries and like this one air tag like every time we put a coin battery in there it just eats it so like okay that one needs to be retired let's buy a replacement i said no don't new air tags are coming out that was like six months ago

They probably make more money from the accessories that they sell for AirTags than they do from the AirTags.

Yeah, I mean, there's a million cheap things you can buy on, you know, everywhere for them.

And speaking of that, we have an AirTag on one set of our keys and we bought whatever they like, you know.

two dollar uh little air tag holder that lets you put it on a keychain from like amazon or something many years ago and it's made of like that rubberized plastic that like gets like sticky and tacky as it gets old yeah you gotta throw that away you know that right yeah you get what you're really toxic like yeah that's gross yeah service announcement everybody once plastic starts emitting oil uh you need to throw that away that's not good for you

The problem with the Apple ones is they're bigger and bulkier than the cheap third-party ones because Apple ones are very expensive and also very large.

Anyway, I'll be getting new AirTags.

They should have a hole.

You can find a million YouTube videos of people drilling holes in them.

Have you seen all those?

There's DIY ways to do this that I don't recommend this, but it's a thing you can do.

Yeah, I don't think it's possible.

If someone has physical access to your...

to your air tag i mean you can just put hot glue on the thing that moves to make the noise like there's no there's no stopping someone from it's not like you know like oh is it possible to make it turn the camera on without making the green led come on on your like macbook pro screen like that is a tractable problem that you can solve in various ways but like i'll give you physical access to this air tag uh but i'll make it so you can't disable the speaker you can always disable the speaker

It'll be very, very difficult to make it so someone with physical access couldn't disable the speaker.

But yeah, Apple does what it can, and they're always refining the software approach.