You can also check MacRumors for deals and availability. I’ve seen posts about deals on v.1 AirTags at Woot and Amazon there. Another traditional place to find hardware designated as Vintage or Obsolete by Apple is Other World Computing.
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I checked MacSales but their search didn’t find any AirTags on their site.
Speaking of these Tag Items, I got a set of 3rd Party, Chipolo, and so far they work pretty well except for the ‘notify when left behind’ feature of Find My App, which I would find very useful. I have it turned on but I can be hours and miles away from the Item and get no notification.
The manufacturer points to Apple for this feature but indicates that my distance and time would have reasonably been expected to cause a Notification.
They also said it might require that Apple’s Significant Locations to also be on for such a notification to occur.
Language at Apple’s page on ‘separation alerts’ and Take Control of AirTags 4.0 indicate using Significant Locations or excluding alerts/notifications in specific locations is optional.
Anyone else had experience with this problem and resolved it? Is it truly not optional to use Significant Locations for separation alerts/notify when left behind work?
I bought some AirTags 2nd gen only to find out that they don’t work on my iPhone 16 Pro running iOS 18. Like AirPods Pro 3 they’re artificially limited to the newest system (not just iOS 26 but a specific point release)
So I returned them and bought some AirTags 1st gen. Amazon messed up the order so I got them for free, plus some credit as way of an apology.
Silver linings, eh?
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