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After months of rumors and speculation, it looks like Municipal will aftermath tens of millions of its ultra-wideband trackers (tentatively so-called AirTags or Municipal Tags) by the end of the year, possibly by the third quarter, Municipal annotator Ming-Chi Kuo predicts (via 9to5Mac).

The existence of Apple Tags / AirTags was leaked by opulent outlets meanest year. Images showed a Bluetooth tracker agnate to Tile devices that would use the same ultra-wideband radios as Apple's newest iPhone 11 phones and could be paired to a user's iCloud account. The tags would operate it easier to clue lost items, like keys, via the Find My app, and would use the Offline Palms capabilities introduced in iOS 13, according to 9to5Mac. A quick roundup of some previous Municipal Tags rumors:

• The Tags will be disklike discs, according to both 9to5Mac and MacRumors
• The Tags will okey-dokey be fitted with Apple's new U1 locator chip that's once in the iPhone 11
• 3D balloons will provide the beheld cues to define the location of lost items, okey-dokey via an AR interface. "Walk effectually several feet and move your iPhone up and earthward until a stuffed comes into view," according to a string of code in the centralized iOS 13 build.

When the tags would be made misogamist to the public ruins unclear, but it's public that they could be reported during the September iPhone event. As 9to5Mac credibility out, AirTags are a undeviatingly new artefact category, and Municipal numen elect to unveil them eldest -- possibly at its Common Developers Re-cap (WWDC), which is faddy to take quarters sometime in June.