The future of Apple’s AirTags.
A quick brainstorm about their latest product.
By now, we all have probably heard of the new AirTags that Apple released just a couple of weeks ago. These little discs, the size of a commemorative coin, are lifesavers when you lose- or want to keep track of your belongings.
Now, while the idea of them is most certainly not new, think of companies like tile that have had these types of trackers for a long time. It shows how powerful the network of Apple’s users is at anonymously finding things.
We know the AirTags are excellent at keeping track of your things, but now I want to look at what Apple could do in the future to make them even more helpful and have the technology become even better.
First of all, and I think they are probably already working on this, is making the device and chip inside it smaller and thinner. Making them smaller would have benefits for putting them in things like wallets, etc.
Then there are the single-use batteries in AirTags, which aren't ideal since Apple wants to be better for the environment. So some wireless charging would be a very welcome feature. When you put the AirTag on an Apple Watch charger, it already looks and (magnetically) feels correct—but making a charging coil that small is going to be a challenge for sure!
Make everything “findable”.
The first thing that came to mind when I got an AirTag for my keys was: “okay, these work pretty quick and also very accurately.” The second thing that came to mind was: “Why don’t my AirPods have this feature”.
AirPods don’t have any helpful tracking whatsoever; they might be in your Find My app, but when you need to find them, they always have a recent location that is unusable, and there is no way of finding them through the app.
They could quickly solve this by simply making an embedded version of the AirTag, putting it in the AirPods case, and connecting it to the battery.
I hope you liked my quick brainstorm about the AirTags future and what Apple might do with them in the future. In case you want to hear more about technology, entrepreneurship, and apps, follow me on my socials:
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