Apple’s AirTags include brand-new kid security battery cautions

Apple has actually included alerting labels to AirTags and their boxes to adhere to a law needing the labels on items with button cell or coin batteries that might be consumed by kids, according to a United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) news release

AirTags imported to the United States after March 19th, 2024, which was when the law, referred to as “Reese’s Law,” entered into result, did not “have actually the needed on-product and on-box cautions worrying the extreme danger of injury from battery intake if these little batteries are not stayed out of reach of kids,” the CPSC states.

Now, the AirTag battery compartment has a “caution sign,” and Apple has actually upgraded AirTags boxes to “consist of needed cautioning declarations and signs,” per the CPSC. In the Find My app, Apple has actually likewise upgraded the guidelines you see when you’re triggered to alter an AirTag battery so that they consist of “a cautioning about the threats of button and coin cell batteries.”