Apple has added one other anti-stalking characteristic to its AirTag trackers, which ought to assist the unsuspecting victims who’ve have one in every of their equipment positioned on their individual.
A brand new Apple help doc has revealed the aim behind the firmware replace revealed earlier this week (through MacRumors).
The corporate says AirTag Firmware Replace 1.0.301 has a sole function: “Tuning the undesirable monitoring sound to extra simply find an unknown AirTag.”
We haven’t had the chance to place the brand new undesirable monitoring sound to the check, nevertheless it’s prone to be associated to a promise the corporate made earlier this 12 months to make the sound louder.
In a information launch following in response to the continuing controversy about undesirable monitoring, Apple stated: “Presently, iOS customers receiving an undesirable monitoring alert can play a sound to assist them discover the unknown AirTag. We will probably be adjusting the tone sequence to make use of extra of the loudest tones to make an unknown AirTag extra simply findable.”
That replace has now rolled out, lessening the chance individuals who have had an AirTag unwittingly stashed of their bag or jacket, received’t hear the tone.
Updating AirTags occurs mechanically, with Apple saying they’re delivered periodically to the accent. Customers might want to have iOS 14.5, at mimimim, put in on the companion iPhone.
To test whether or not you’re working the most recent AirTag firmware, Apple says customers can open the Discover My app, faucet Gadgets, and choose the AirTag from the record. That can reveal the serial quantity and firmware model.
Apple has been steadily enhancing the anti-stalking instruments throughout the AirTag trackers since launch. There are privateness warnings throughout set-up, refined “Unknown Accent Detected” alerts to account for folks’s AirPods. The corporate is including “precision discovering” too.
