7 ways Apple can make the AirTag so much better

Apple loves a good second-gen product, frequently snaring early adopters with a promising but flawed or incomplete original product before hitting the mainstream with a sequel that fixes the biggest issues with the first model. This list goes on—Apple Watch, Apple Pencil, even the original iPhone. And now we can add the AirTag to that list. While there’s a lot to like about Apple’s tracker, there are several ways Apple can improve it with the inevitable AirTag 2.

1. THE HOLE TRUTH

Some object trackers have holes and some do not, but the ones against which the AirTag is most obviously competing—the  and , , even the , hosted on Apple’s own Find My network—tend to fall into the Swiss cheese category. They have a hole, and thus they are the midsize trackers you’re most likely to see attached to a key ring.