I had a warning that the batteries in a couple of my AirTags were running low, so I changed them for brand-new, fresh batteries. The tags continue to work but the “low battery” warnings haven’t gone away - and it’s been three days now.
Can I fix it? Does it matter?
Did you happen to use batteries with a child-proof butter coating? Apparently these have a coating that can prevent them from working right in AirTags.
If the coating is interfering, then the battery won’t work at all. If you can communicate with it (e.g. tell it to play its chime), then that’s not the problem.
Tip: rubbing alcohol removes the bitter coating
No. As I wrote, the tags work fine. It’s just their battery level display on my iPhone which hasn’t updated.
The only thing which occurs to me could matter is that I won’t get the usual “low battery” message when eventually these batteries do run low.
That makes me want to lick them!!!
;-)
That does seem like a long time. I’ve replaced a few, and the warning seems to resync in at most a few hours. Take them out, and put them back in again?
This might sound obvious—or you’ve already checked—but is your phone’s Bluetooth turned on?
I have never seen this. Whenever I have had to swap AirTag batteries, the low bat warning on my iPhone went away as soon as the AirTag powered back up after I inserted the new battery.
Yes. I can trigger the sound on both AirTags.
That’s very reassuring.
Did you try the obvious, I know, restart phone, unpair repair airtags?
I have a related issue, my battery went dead because I didn’t change it in time (I was traveling, the AirTag wasn’t), and now no matter what I try, I can’t get the AirTag (with new battery) to connect to the iPhone it originally connected to. The battery is good, the AirTag makes a noise when I reseat the battery, but the Find My app refuses to connect to it.
Is there some way to “factory reset” it?
Thanks! I had done this three times, but not the magic fourth iteration. Will try again…