AirTags has space for drilling a key ring hole — but that’s a bad idea

AirTags has space for drilling a cardinal ring hole — but that's a bad idea

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Don't want to buy any AirTags accessories? Yous could only drill a hole into your tracker and use that instead. Merely but because you tin can do something, doesn't mean you lot should.

Teardown experts iFixit were able to drill a hole into an AirTag without hitting any of import components. All information technology hitting was plastic and glue, and the tracker still works after the fact. Merely, naturally, this sort of thing would ruin your warranty.

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Obviously drilling in the wrong identify tin can crusade damage, and ruin the $29 AirTag for all fourth dimension. Apple would prefer you purchase some sort of AirTags accessories to attach them to things, and that is the safest bet.

Just if you really are absolutely 100 per centum against doing that, and don't want to use glue to stick your AirTags to stuff either, drilling is an option. iFixit fifty-fifty included a handy diagram of "safe zones" where you can punch a hole into the tracker and attach a chain, or primal ring, or another similar thing.

airtags drilling zones — (Image credit: iFixit)

Equally you can see at that place are some options, but there's non a large margin for mistake. Only bold you lot take a 1/16" drill bit, and are willing to be very careful, this is really possible.

Just call back to have the battery out start, because the terminal thing you lot need is to make a fault and have a small-scale fire on your hands. Which, if anything, is another reason not to do this. Brand sure to mind the words of Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park and don't get and so preoccupied in whether you can practise something and forget to stop and think about whether you should.

Should Apple tree take included a pigsty or clip for central rings? Probably, and it certainly looks like there is space in the existing AirTags design to arrange one. Not only would that accept added a niggling more versatility to the tracker, it would besides avoid the need to buy expensive accessories to go with them.

That wouldn't mean Apple, and other third parties, couldn't likewise sell Airtags accessories. At that place are always people who want to personalise their gadgets, and AirTags accessories do give them that pick.

Simply a defended key clip would also requite people the pick to better utilize their tag without having to pay more than the $29 entry fee. Perhaps we'll see that on the AirTags 2.

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