2023-08-30 21:45:00
Apple may have made the operation that aimed to cut the whistle to AirTags more delicate to prevent them from alerting of their presence.
On Reddit, a beacon customer has desired perform the small manipulation that allows you to remove the internal speaker. He explains that he wants to use his AirTag with his bike and prevent his presence from being reported to a possible thief.
Photo in support, he shows that the part is more firmly fixed with glue, making more difficult, and even impossible in his case, any possibility of extraction. It is not said that with a little tact and patience it is still doable, but it seems more risky.
As soon as the AirTags came out, disassembling them revealed a clever and economical sound system. But also quite easy to circumvent. You can easily find tutorials that explain how to remove the speaker without damaging its beacon.
Having become mute, an AirTag can, of course, be used to avoid being spotted by a villain. But there are other situations where the beacon will be used to track someone without their knowledge. This is the case that Apple may have tackled.
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Other users on Reddit say they haven’t seen any changes inside recently purchased AirTags. If this modification is proven, it would still be necessary to know when it dates from. These people might have purchased beacons released from older stocks.
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