Apple’s new AirTag comes with several improvements over the original model, one of which is that it expands AirTag’s best feature—Precision Finding—to the Apple Watch. Here’s how to set it up.
AirTag 2 expands Precision Finding to the Apple Watch
AirTag’s core purpose is to help you find lost objects. And the best feature for doing that has long been Precision Finding.
Precision Finding uses haptic, visual, and audio feedback to guide you step-by-step directly to your lost item.
The feature got better with AirTag 2 thanks to an expanded range that now lets Precision Finding work from up to 1.5x farther away than the first AirTag.
But AirTag 2 has another key Precision Finding improvement: it brings the feature to Apple Watch for the first time.
However, as my colleague Ben pointed out in his hands-on review, the way you set it up isn’t the most intuitive.
On Apple Watch, the Find Items app is typically the place you go for tracking down a lost AirTag.
But to use Precision Finding, watchOS instead sends you to Control Center.
How to set up Precision Finding and requirements for use
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