Apple has added warning labels to AirTags and their containers to adjust to a regulation requiring the labels on merchandise with button cell or coin batteries that may very well be ingested by kids, in line with a US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) press launch.
AirTags imported to the US after March nineteenth, 2024, which was when the regulation, often called “Reese’s Law,” went into impact, didn’t “have the required on-product and on-box warnings in regards to the extreme threat of damage from battery ingestion if these small batteries usually are not saved out of attain of kids,” the CPSC says.
Now, the AirTag battery compartment has a “warning image,” and Apple has up to date AirTags containers to “embrace required warning statements and symbols,” per the CPSC. In the Find My app, Apple has additionally up to date the directions you see while you’re prompted to vary an AirTag battery in order that they embrace “a warning concerning the hazards of button and coin cell batteries.”
