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A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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673 points dmd | 1 comments | 18 Dec 24 18:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.263s | source
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janandonly ◴[18 Dec 24 18:19 UTC] No.42453230[source]▶
That is not how batteries work. Batteries drain even under minimal usage.

My bet is that in 2/3 years this device will stop working already.

Just change the batteries if you AirTag once a year. Especially if you are using an AirTag to keep watch over 10.000 dollar equipment.

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m463 ◴[19 Dec 24 04:11 UTC] No.42458360[source]▶
Lots of smoke alarms now have 10 year batteries.
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jerlam ◴[19 Dec 24 04:29 UTC] No.42458441[source]▶
Now mandated in California.

No more waking up in the middle of the night and crawling up a ladder to find out which of your smoke alarms decided it was too cold and decided to sing its low battery chirp.

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1. michaelmior ◴[19 Dec 24 19:23 UTC] No.42464828[source]▶
Also in New York. Personally I'm all for this even though I think it does make detectors a bit more expensive. Not only because it avoids the need to change batteries, but because it's more likely that smoke detectors actually get replaced at their end of life.