Apple Adds Child Safety Tags to AirTags That Alert About Their Button Batteries

Apple has started to add warning labels about button or coin batteries on AirTag devices and in their boxes, in order to comply with the Reese’s Law of child safety, after receiving a notice of violation issued by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

The American Reese’s Law establishes performance requirements and warning labels for consumer products with button or coin batteries, specifically, for “protect children from potentially fatal ingestion“.

In this sense, although Apple’s AirTag meets the performance requirements set forth by said law to protect the lithium button battery, imported units after the entry into force of the standard, on March 19, 2024, did not include the required warningsneither on the device itself nor on the product box.

Therefore, the CPSC issued a notice of infringement to Apple regarding its AirTags, claiming that it does not include warnings about “the serious risk of injury from ingesting batteries” if they are not kept out of the reach of children, as it has shared in a statement.

As a consequence, the CPSC has reached an agreement with the technology company, with which Apple will begin including a warning symbol inside the battery compartment, in addition to modify the box to include such warnings and mandatory symbols.

Regarding units already sold that do not have these notifications, Apple has updated the instructions that appear in the Find My app. In this way, users are warned about the risks of button and coin type batteries through the smartphone.

With all this, the CPSC has warned that manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers who fail to comply with the Reese’s Act could be subject to “coercive measures”, so they must comply with current regulations.