Apple’s AirTags add new baby security battery warnings

Apple has added warning labels to AirTags and their packing containers to adjust to a legislation requiring the labels on merchandise with button cell or coin batteries that may very well be ingested by youngsters, in keeping with a US Shopper Product Security Fee (CPSC) press launch.

AirTags imported to the US after March nineteenth, 2024, which was when the legislation, generally known as “Reese’s Regulation,” went into impact, didn’t “have the required on-product and on-box warnings regarding the extreme threat of harm from battery ingestion if these small batteries should not stored out of attain of kids,” the CPSC says.

Now, the AirTag battery compartment has a “warning image,” and Apple has up to date AirTags packing containers to “embody required warning statements and symbols,” per the CPSC. Within the Discover My app, Apple has additionally up to date the directions you see if you’re prompted to vary an AirTag battery in order that they embody “a warning in regards to the hazards of button and coin cell batteries.”