Apple's AirTag 2 is just as easy to tamper with as the original — and that's a dream come true for stalkers

Apple AirTag 2 held in the hand.

The Apple AirTag 2 is here, after many years of waiting, and with it comes a bunch of new upgrades and design changes. Before launch, it had been rumored that the trackers would come with a louder speaker that's harder to tamper with — a change that would have been a major boon to security. Sadly, it seems this isn't the case.

While Apple promised that the second-generation AirTag would have “a suite of industry-first protections against unwanted tracking," a teardown from iFixit revealed this doesn't extend to the physical speaker itself. In fact, far from being tamper-proof, they found it's just as easy to disable as the original AirTag.