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Apple Says Don't Buy AirTag Replacement Batteries With Bitter Coating
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damned if they do, damned if they don't....apple releases airtags with non-removable battery, they'd be under scrutiny. sell something with a removable battery...more scrutiny as if they designed the CR2032 battery...
I would take stupid as someone lacking mental capacity which cannot be corrected by them, while ignorance would be that someone who does have mental capacity doesn’t have knowledge, which can be a willful lack of knowledge by not making the effort to learn. So I would consider ignorant to be worse since it is likely easily correctable if the person chose to.
This whole battery thing is going overboard - the locking system Apple uses is the same for pill bottles, and countless other items with potential things for people/children who don’t know any better to swallow. I am pretty sure I swallowed a lot of coins growing up, and bugs and …
People, please give this crap a rest and just read the package and keep the crap out of reach of kids.
It just like the people who put superglue next to their eye drops!!!
RIP common sense.
People, please give this crap a rest and just read the package and keep the crap out of reach of kids.
It just like the people who put superglue next to their eye drops!!!
RIP common sense.
they say it’s possible because it has actually happened. It happened to my second cousins kid. They opened the old Apple TV remote ate the battery and died. She was only out of the room long enough to use the toilet
Why would they? Car and watch manufacturers are not as dumb as Apple. Children can't extract the batteries from the key fobs or watches as easily as they can do it from AirTags.
I'm curious if anyone has actually picked up some of these batteries to test how well they work with Airtags. After all, YouTubers have used Airtags to lose all kinds of items on purpose just to go on a scavenger hunt.
Yes, or a bit of fine sandpaper I thought. Just where the contacts are then you've still got a bitter coating to protect the kids
I don't understand the necessity of the bitter coating. As it is, the packaging of the CR2020 is so hard to get into using scissors or knives, no kid will be able open that Fort Knox like casing. If a parent cuts open the protective casing and then leaves the batteries where kids can reach, then the parents are dumb not the kids.
As for opening the Airtag by pressing and twisting the back to remove the battery, a kid with such dexterity is presumably smart enough not to swallow it.
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I'm an old adult and still test the 9V battery that way before resorting to my Fluke meter 🙂
Just take care of your goddamn child and don’t let it near your AirTag, I don’t think it is that hard.
I have a better idea. Make the AirTag batteries sealed, non removable, re-chargeable that can be charged with a lightning cable, like the ATV remote.
Off topic, but now the sentence "the dumb will speak" in the song "Mary, did you know" makes a lot more sense....
Unsurprisingly, Apple-issued battery replacements would be 250% more expensive due to having better packaging and an unique out of the box customer experience.
I too am a bit bemused by this. The phase where my kids potentially put whatever they found in their mouths (note - if it didn’t taste good they’d spit it out) was after they started crawling around, but before they started walking at 9-10 months of age. And I agree, they never seemed to even consider metallic stuff to be potential food.
So I find the combination of motoric skills and mindset an unlikely combination. And if the kids are capable of disassembling stuff and prone to eat the innards, well that must be a highly unusual combination, and our society simply isn’t secure enough that such special kids can’t get themselves into trouble. I can’t really see that it’s the job of gear manufacturers to maintain a safe environment for such kids. (I can’t even see it as possible at all - it’s not as if pre-electricity society was any safer.) Parents have a tricky task maintaining a "mostly safe" environment for normal kids. I don’t feel that a "completely safe" environment even for typical kids is possible at all.
And while some parents are prone to blame others for what their kids get themselves into, I don’t think that society should encourage that attitude.
This is again down to poor parenting why are your kids playing with batt in the first place being a parent req you to have eyes in th back of your head problem is a lot of parents give the kid a toy and carry on with there life
Since AirTags were just released earlier this year and are expected to have a year-long battery life, it may be some time yet before AirTag users need a replacement battery, but when the time comes for a refresh, Apple is warning customers not to buy batteries with a bitter coating.
AirTags use coin-shaped CR2032 batteries, which happen to be a size that's easy to swallow. Some battery makers like Duracell have begun putting a bitter coating on CR2032 batteries to prevent children from eating them.
According to Duracell, hundreds of lithium coin batteries are accidentally swallowed by children each year, and these batteries can cause a harmful chemical reaction. The non-toxic bitter coating reacts with saliva and is meant to deter swallowing.
As The Loop points out, Apple's AirTag battery replacement support document that was published earlier this month specifically warns against bitterants and says that these coatings might cause the battery not to work.The alignment of the coating in relation to the battery contacts is at issue, so to ensure the battery will work, AirTag users should buy replacement CR2032 batteries that do not have any kind of coating.
Apple's use of the CR2032 battery has been an issue in Australia, and some Australian retailers have refused to sell AirTags because of the easy access to the battery. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission sent out a press release urging parents to keep AirTags out of the reach of children because of safety concerns about the "accessibility and security of the button battery inside the product."
The battery in the AirTag is accessible by pressing and twisting the accessory open, which the ACCC believes is simple enough for children to figure out. In addition to avoiding batteries with coatings, AirTag users should also make an effort to keep them away from kids.
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Proof why parenting should require a license. Being an adult without kids is like driving with a license and suddenly being transported to India and everyone around you is driving like they got their license in a cereal box and it’s now bumper car arena time.
Yes, languages change over time as people use them. That is exactly how they work. Your use of “dumbed-down” is a good example. Political correctness has become a thing, too, and if you actually read the dictionary entry you posted you will note that it says “OFFENSIVE-DATED” beside your preferred usage.