Apple’s Airtags Add New Child Safety Battery Warnings

Apple has added informing labels to AirTags and their boxes to comply pinch a norm requiring nan labels connected products pinch fastener compartment aliases coin batteries that could beryllium ingested by children, according to a US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) property release.

AirTags imported to nan US aft March 19th, 2024, which was erstwhile nan law, known arsenic “Reese’s Law,” went into effect, did not “have nan required on-product and on-box warnings concerning nan unspeakable consequence of wounded from artillery ingestion if these mini batteries are not kept retired of scope of children,” nan CPSC says.

Now, nan AirTag artillery compartment has a “warning symbol,” and Apple has updated AirTags boxes to “include required informing statements and symbols,” per nan CPSC. In nan Find My app, Apple has too updated nan instructions you spot erstwhile you’re prompted to alteration an AirTag artillery truthful that they spot “a informing astir nan hazards of fastener and coin compartment batteries.”

Apple launched AirTags successful 2021 and is rumored to motorboat a caller type this year.