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Apple silently modified the AirTag‘s retail field to adjust to Reese’s Regulation’s warning label necessities.
The regulation requires units with coin-cell batteries to indicate a warning label about retaining them out of attain of kids.
AirTag packaging will get a brand new warning label
The US Client Product Security Fee issued Apple a Discover of Violation for AirTags’ not adhering to Reese’s Regulation. The regulation requires units utilizing coin cell batteries to indicate warnings “to guard kids from life threatening ingestion.” It went into pressure on March 19, 2024.
The announcement states that Apple now features a warning image on the AirTag retail field. It has additionally added a warning image contained in the monitoring tags’ battery compartment. Nonetheless, the US CPSC didn’t particularly point out when the corporate made the modifications.
It’s not clear if the US CPSC fined Apple for briefly violating Reese’s Regulation. It’s also unclear if the modifications to the AirTag have been applied solely within the US or globally.
Discover My app to indicate a warning when changing battery
Since Apple already bought some AirTag models with out the mandatory warnings to shoppers, it has made a behavioral tweak within the Discover My app. Now, when a immediate to vary the AirTag battery seems, the app will show a warning about retaining coin-cell batteries out of attain of kids. The corporate by no means made this transformation official from its finish.
AirTag makes use of a CR2032 coin cell battery that may final a few 12 months. You possibly can simply exchange the AirTags battery when required, with the huge availability of the CR2032 cell additional making issues simpler.