Howto remove the speaker coil from the Airtag (make your Airtag very silent!)
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This is a little howto video on removing the speaker magnet from your Airtag. Some Airtags might still make a tiny bit of sound (almost unhearable) after doing this! This will be the soundwaves reflecting against the inside of the case. Others are totally silent after doing this.
Doing this will void your waranty!
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Looked for this because I want to put one of these on my motorcycle! Glad to see it is super easy.
Thanks, the anti-stalking tech makes these things pretty useless for antitheft unless you remove the speaker. I put two on expensive things.. but I only disable the speaker on one hoping the thief will stop looking once the beeping device is located and thrown into the woods.
Stalkers will love this tutorial
@Georg D. True, buy anyone can get an Apple id just by getting a free new gmail account. Difficult to trace that way.
@@jeffskent people will get notified on their phone they have been possibly tracked (if they use iPhone I think)
Hoi Alex,
Ik wil mijn fiets beveiligen, is dit een goede oplossing?
De fietsendief krijgt een melding als hij thuis komt toch?
@Georg D. yeah bright idea . Use a tracker that can be traced back to the owner. Lol! This issue is a non-issue. A kitchen knife can cut vegetables. It can also be used to kill. Should we be concerned about kitchen knives?
@@jeffskent that is not how it works. Every iPhone user have to use an apple i.d. and a phone number. The phone number is tied to the owner (att, sprint etc.). You can’t fake that. When you activate the Airtag, it is automatically registered or tied to the owner’s apple ID and phone number. Hence, any active airtag can be traced back.
FYI when you pry the cases apart, the safe prying zones are (with battery bump at 12:00) from 10:00-2:00 and 5:00-7:00. There are small electrical components right at the edges of the other positions that you can detach by prying (ask me how I know)
(alternately (and probably also a good idea), the electrical components are 1.8mm in from the outer lip, so keep your prying instruments no more than 1.5mm deep and you should be safe. The part you want to pry off is only 1.2mm thick at it's edge)
Yes I have managed to damage one among other successful
I wish I read this before trying it myself, broke an air tag lol. Scared to try again
@@oszcarin its nothing just keep the broken one as a model for the other you will modify
@@artgreg2296 thanks man, that’s exactly what I’m gonna do. If anything, the broken one will be saved as extra parts once the other ones start wearing down.
I knew this would come. I didn’t know it would come this early looool
If you cut off the 2 very thin copper wires held down by beads of glue it ; and then remove the copper coils. It will be totally silent.
Thanks! I checked with my ear to the device and it still had a faint beeping sound after following 99% of the instruction videos. I was worried the coils were used as antenna. still works!
Thank you mate really appreciate this I just got an electric bike and don’t want it stolen
Where do you put it?
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Which one did ya get?
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Ok. So you can remove the speaker. but how do you stop a thief with an iPhone from seeing he located an airtag? When I configure mine and enable lost mode, it wants to know either my phone# or email address. How do I make sure it is not shown to the finder? (or does this just mean: do not enable lost mode ever)?
Would be nice to get an answer to this
There's not much you can do. All you can do is hide it as best as you can and hope it's not found and taken off. Removing the speaker makes this as good of a GPS tracker as anything, because there's little to no sound. Just hide it well
Simply desoldering one end of the coil makes more sense since you additionally save battery by not driving current through the coil during beeping ;)
where is the coil?
@@eternitywas what you mean?
Do you have a picture? Maybe a video? I'm afraid I'll screw it up
You're removing the magnet of the speaker, not the coil ;) But yes that works too, if any of those are missing, well... The speaker won't work.
Yeah you are right.. crappy thing is you can't change video's after uploading them..
@@AirtagAlex Not a problem! You can still change the title though! Anyways, I subscribed, I want to see more! :)
I am not getting my updated location after doing that
There is still a weak sound when removing the magnet, and it should be completely silent for the cat. Could you make a video of removing the coil?
Great video, thx. Just for info… my chemical engineer granddad always used to get irritated when I said that the glue had to dry … glue doesn’t dry, it hardens.
I would have moved the Xacto knife further away from my fingers before trying to pry the AirTag open!
No blood was shed while making this video :)
I felt the same thing. I kept watching the exacto knife haha
@@AirtagAlex Prying with a blade like that is a good way to get a piece of the blade in your eye too. I was cringing through that whole part. Sorry for being a YT safety cop.
I couldnt breath for a couple minutes. watching that knife
This isn’t exactly a great public service.🤔
Try not to overthink it..
🙋🏻♂️ who else besides me couldn’t stop looking over at the glue stick he put down on the table and wonder if he would catch it before the glue ooze touched the desk? I felt a bit of anxiety from it lol
When I shot the video I was thinking.. shit.. i have to hurry up :) It was my 3rd attempt.. the first time the airtag jumped away from me trying to open it and the 2nd time i knocked the camera over.
I got anxiety from watching the rough plying action with an exacto knife right next to the hands.
my mum have alheimer's or something similar a sort of dementia often, but atm she live by herself and still drive, but it's so hard to contact her, cos she even have trouble to use her phone , so i was thinking about placing an airtag on her car in case she was lost and called me , cos i'm afraid she wouldn't be able to tell me where she is, i will try to explain her the purpose of this , and i have to remove the speaker on it cos otherwise it will bother her, but Apple did a great job with privacy with those, but i guess a 2nd sort of Airtags more Health related for ppl like my mum would be very useful... thx for the video, i'm just afraid that it will be used maliciously by some ppl.
Why not use a proper GPS enabled tracker that doesn't rely on passers by with iPhones to locate your mum. Or just use an old iPhone connected into the lighter socket (so it's always on) and use find my.
@@Joe-lb8qn i always thought GPS trackers were on monthly subscription ? are they not ? but good idea about the older iphone plugged in ... thx
Hi, this is just my opinion but maybe your mum should stop driving. It's hard, I know, but a car is extremely dangerous both for your mum and the passers-by. I know how difficult is having a family member with dementia, my grandpa has it. Wish you luck, take care
@@mariavalencia8543 thx for the support , unfortunately her mother , my only grandparent i knew had it too... and i remember how it ended... but about the airtag i stopped cos i managed to damage two airtags by trying it softly and maybe a bit too hard... but i guess a system could be in place by Apple where my mum wouls give her consentement for example to be ' tracked ' but i understand it is a touchy topic , cos their is a ton of malveillant ppl ...
Have you tried apps that can help track dependents (e.g. children)?
Yes, I will now put it to track Android user, thank you Apple
What's your skillset? lol
You're basically overqualified and this is some of the beauty of your videos
if you wanted to do it even faster, could you just remove the batter and run a drill through the middle ?
Doubt that will be faster.. I can do the whole thing in under 3 mins now..
Expected the AirTag to be a bit more tamperproof, like actually break the PCB if you try to force it open.
Да, apple могли бы полностью склеить компоненты и защитить таблетку от взлома. Но хорошо, что они этого не сделали :)
@@mr.brucks3159 wat
@@Wiejeben he’s saying it’s lucky apple never glued the parts together so this is possible.
Maybe it's better to remove magnet thru battery compartment, making hole there? Then it stays IP67, only without speaker? What's is dimension of that magnet in millimeters?
I ask myself, I answer myself: magnet size is 11,93mm so i made 12mm hole in bottom of battery compartment and took magnet out.
@@Neemelaid nice idea bro, thanks!
@@Neemelaid Great idea! 😃
I know, i’ve done 3 airtags that way allready
@@Neemelaid how did you make the hole? And did you cover it?
I’m about to put a tag on my bike and need to disable the sound too
Cool thx! Why didńt Apple thought about deactivating the small speaker from your Celular phone.
Gee wiz, why would Apple make it sound off when separated from you? As if that would help us find it? Or?? I mean don't most of us use it on our bikes? Why would they want to alert the thief?
If you want to be able to put speaker back in should you not glue?
Needed this. The last thing I need is my airtag alerting a fuking bike thief that his location is known.
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Yea, I don't see why TF apple just didn't make an option to turn the sound OFF ...
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MOVE THE KNIFE!! I can't breath
If you use a case that's magnetic to mount your airtag it still makes a sound. Wish I had known this. but its still better than nothing
how about making it loud? i hope it is possible.
I thought somebody would do speaker removal like that, I wasn’t wrong. In my opinion Air tag in that shape Apple has designed it has no future. The whole point of tracking anything is spoiled when you cannot decide when it shell beep and who can discover its presence. We will see , but now Air tag is almost pointless for protecting things that might be stolen. Thiefs already know that such devices exist.
AirTag was designed to find lost items not stop theft. Anyway, who would use a $20 tracker on something they truly valued??
@@HighFidelityFox sometimes simple solutions are the best
@@HighFidelityFox airtag is better than a gps tracker
you don’t need no glue you can open it without breaking anything…
3:24 how can a new one be waterproof, when there are anyway a lot of holes behind the battery???
Perfect for putting into my M4 to track it in case it's ever stolen. Thank you!
By M4 do you mean the AR or something else?
@@braydenhebdon2165 bmw m4 for sure
Do you have to put glue when putting it back together? (I wanted to leave out the glue since I don't have any at hand)
Yeah.. otherwise it will fall apart.
@@AirtagAlex I see your point, but I thought screwing the silver case back on would (just about) hold everything together, no?
@@Pung5252 I doubt that will work..
Could you do that once for me? 😜
Love the DIY, and there’s many legit reasons to disable the speaker, but there’s something to be said about circumventing an anti-stalking feature.
Though, there’s already many trackers that don’t have any, the pervasiveness of the findmy network will make an air tag modded like this dangerous for android users, as there would be no way for them to know they’re being tracked.
I know what you are saying.. but in my case i want to disable it for several reasons and they have nothing to do with stalking. When my bike gets stolen, i don’t want to alert the thief after 3 days by a beeping airtag. Same goes for my car and when i send one by mail.
8 years ago i bought a matchbox sized gps tracker to record the route i walked outside. If 8 years ago it was matchbox sized imagine what they can do now. I think the stalker thing is a bit overhyped with the airtag. There are many other ways to track someone.
My airtag won’t make noise but they will still show up on the iphone.. that won’t change.
Gosh you all and your over worry about privacy.
If stalkers really wanted to track a target there are so many other alternatives like a sim/gps tracker.
Why use a tracker than relies on a network of phones, when a tracker that relies on cellular network is so much more reliable?
@@87togabito finally someone who gets it :)
@@87togabito Well, on a city I think an airtag is more reliable. Cellular connection can be poor inside buildings and also it won't tell you the latitude. Meanwhile an airtag in a city will connect to an iDevice every few minutes and tell you if its on other floor than you.
If you stoled something of mine I dont want you to know you’re being track
Hi Alex!
Great video, but I'm coming late to the party... I have two questions, before I remove the loudspeaker: after which time does the alarm go off? I heard 8 hours and 8 days! And will the thief be notified that there's an AirTag near by even after removing the loudspeaker? Thanks! 🙏🏻
some used there iphone to record this watching on my ipad says the video is hdr x3
So you were sending them in the mail? Then don't pull the plastic out between the battery contacts.
My bike got stolen recently, planning to buy an airtag to locate my new bike if it ever got stolen. Thank you man👍
Now stalkers will use this to track people more silent
Perfect
I ruined it … this did not work
I did over 45 airtags using this method..
Yeah why the fuck they would make some thing that says hey here I am so throw me out for theft makes absolutely no sense especially since it’s linked to you
It’s a prevention measure to stop people using them for stalking people.
What type of glue do you recommend?
They must have pushed a software update because I did this and it borked my airtag
Still works fine here! Did it last week…
The signal drops significantly after trying this method….
So far I didn't experience this problem yet..
@@AirtagAlex try it against obstacles, I hide it inside the bicycle frame before and after removing the speaker coil, a big difference I found, I did exactly as you mention in this video, not sure if I did damage it but it works fine outside the frame!
@@husamsalhab Funny, after your remark i put 2 airtags also in my bike frame.. a modified one and an original.. so far I didn’t notice any difference.
@@AirtagAlex perhaps I did a mistake, I will double check it. Thanks for your efforts and videos, keep going, subscribed :)
Tja, voor gestolen voertuigen heeft dit geen nut, tenzij je langer dan 3 dagen wacht met het opsporen van je voertuig.
Die snap ik niet helemaal..
There will b blood, there will b blood, 😨
beetje veel overbelicht Alex!
Can't you use a small magnet to stop the coil from moving ?
This is what I thought would happen
It will be welded on the version, or maybe it will be a surface mounted component that can't be removed without bricking the device. Trust Apple.
Thank you, I don’t want them to beep so I can have them in my back pack
I think putting tape around the AirTag keeps it quiet.
Try play sound and squeezing it and you will see the effect.
Tried that..
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I wonder if that weakens the transmitting connection, too.
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Heb je ondertussen al ervaringen nu de meldingen tussen de 8 en 12 uur kunnen komen ipv na 3 dagen? Dat maakt nog al een verschil volgens mij.
Ik merk tot nu toe geen verschil.
This option should be implemented by apple
Hi, I was wondering if there's a way of making it waterproof again. Also, will it break if I put a relatively strong magnet next to it? I want my cat to wear it and he has a magnet attached to his collar as well, that he uses to open the cat flap. Thank you for the video!!
There is a way to remove the magnet and keep it waterproof.. I will make a video about it one of these days. You will have to pretty much make a hole at the place where the magnet is.. that way you don't need to open the sides of the plastic.
@@AirtagAlex thank you! But will the Airtag break if my cat is wearing a magnet next to
It?
@@mariavalencia8543 Not that I am aware of..
@@AirtagAlex I have read that the speaker is the magnetic part of the Airtag. I wonder if it would be possible to break it by approaching a strong magnet without opening the Airtag.
@@AirtagAlex I have done it the way you did in the video, but being extra careful, so there are no gaps really. No signs I opened it. I think it still must be waterproof. I will cover it with tape, just to make sure. It still works, so thanks for the video
Someone confirm this still works?
Yup, still works.. but these i use this method: th-cam.com/video/_HTddbjPuVg/w-d-xo.html
Yeah that lids never coming off your superglue ever again
No problems so far…
@@AirtagAlex haha fair enough, thanks for the video
couldn't you or someone, just put it in a tiny ziplock bag so there is not issues with it getting wet. Sure the warranty is void, but at least you have more environmental options. Like hiding it in a secret location were it might get exposed to rain or snow or whatever.
Спасибо за подробное видео!
thanks
What kind of glue did you use?
Superglue
I removed the speaker but it still makes sound
Should be almost not noticeable. If it's still a problem you could fill the empty space with silicone.
@@AirtagAlex does it still make sound then? Why?
so i've just done it, like you ,but a bit gentlier , and 2 weird things happenned , first my speacker was glue to other piece you showing at 2:43 and i put it back again but now it doesn't work at all... and i wonder why ... did someone else experienced this ?
I have seen the magnet sometimes on the lid and sometimes inside the coil.. but so far I never had trouble putting it back so it worked again. Make sure the pins for the battery go in the llittle holes (should be 3 of them)..
@@AirtagAlex sorry I’m French so my English isn’t perfect u are talking about pins but are u talking about the rounded battery or the 3 plastic hooks that clicks back into the other part ?
@@AngeAlexiel i mean the 3 metals pins that go through the plastic lid towards your battery. They should touch the battery otherwise it wont work.
@@AirtagAlex ok thx I’ll try again
@@AngeAlexiel did u solve it? I have the same issue. Broke now :( but only my self to blame
My Airtag makes after remove sounds …
Could be but probably at a very low sound. If you want to get rid of that you could fill the empty space with silicone
@@AirtagAlex What do you think about the battery? It always makes noises, not really loud, but they're there
You should rename the video since you did not remove the speaker coil but the magnet, which seems to be a difference 😉
Thank you!!
Αfter removing the magnet, if you approach the artag in your ear (about 10cm) it sounds again but very low!
Yeah the only thing you can do is fill the empty space with silicone kit.. that will take care of that but i honestly dont bother since the sound is so low..
@@AirtagAlex If i cut the coil?There will be a problem?
@@xenofonlive I never tried :) But is this very low sound really a problem? I know some silicone will fix it.. i have no idea what cutting the coil will do..
@@AirtagAlex I just cut the coil! zero sound now and all works fine ,this coil it is only for the sound not for the antenna.Τhe reason i did it is because i place it whith magnet to hold it under my car or my harley,as a result the sound returning to 100%!!!
@@xenofonlive Thanks for letting me know. I never had the guts to cut it :)
After removing speaker my location does not update like it used too
Weird.. I don’t have this problem.. and i did it like 7 times. If your battery still making good contact?
I have now noticed my battery going below half full. It seems like is draining my battery
@@john90304 Doesn't seem to be related to removing the magnet.. I had the same problem with other unmodified airtags. I modified 7 and only 1 had an empty battery. If you google it you will find more people who have battery problems with new airtags.
"Doing this will void your warranty!"
i am not sure if apple would even tear down a defective air tag to see what went wrong *
*= in the old days when products was very expensive both to the consumer and to manufacture so manufacturers would tear down the devices to see what went wrong.
today stuff is so cheap to manufacture and marked up so much that even a top level iphone probably will be chucked in the dumpster or recycling bin and a new one would be sent out.
apple may tear down their products just to recycle for environmental purposes as while the air tag is $30 to the consumer it i probably pennies to make and is not worth tearing down to see what went wrong unless they got a large number of them back as defective at once or too many returns from same customer.
Really it’s kind of not a good deterrent for stalkers. It’d be more sensible if phones that were nearby for an hour or so were alerted that there was a long term nearby lost activated airtag near them, and after a while longer (3 hours?) actually let them locate it
If your not doing anything wrong you shouldn’t be worried about your family knowing where you are, we already do this live for years before Airtag in Google family location share. Thanks for showing us how to disable the speaker now I can put this in all my gears and not worry about thief knowing it’s being tracked.
I removed
the speaker but the airtag still makes some beep noice but very very quite. S.o. an idea how to even remove this?
A tiny bit of glue or silicone in the middle will do the job! I usually drop a bit of glue in the middle.
it woooorks thank you sooo much !!!!!!
While i think this is really cool and i'm sure you'll come up with more crazy stuff (loved the airtags traveling ideas) - this is exactly why WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS....
Expecting Apple to completely glue the next airtags and possibly not even allow for user battery exchange because removing noise from Airtag makes it a privacy nightmare; if someone gets one of these dropped into their bag, especially if they don't have an iPhone ... well, stalker's paradise.
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They totally wouldn't buy one of the cheaper devices on the market that already do it better! No, they'd modify an apple tag not to beep and build a really bad tracking device!
Then it just means that the market price for the old gen airtag will go up.
I’m personally only buying the airtag because it’s possible to forcefully mute the damn thing. The last thing I want is for a bike thief to be alerted that he is being tracked.
With Facebook, Instagram, tiktok, I find it hilarious that you all seem concerned about privacy at this point.
... Stalkers delight ....
UH boy ....
It's exactly because of videos like this that Apple will likely push a firmware upgrade to all AirTags that will use the accelerometer to detect the tampered speaker and immediately warn everyone within Bluetooth range that the AirTag is stalking. And good riddance. All you creepers need to find a different tracker to abuse.
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(let the glue dry before you add electricity) 🤦
I think this video will do more harm than good. It will make the device stalker-enabled for all non-Apple device owners. Maybe keep the video unlisted or private? :)
Too late muahahaha
For? All of us have been nothing short of annoyed that the airtag will alert a thief that they are being tracked.
This removal of the alarm at least helps resolve the problem; a problem which wouldn’t have existed in the first place if Apple didn’t bother with all that privacy bullshit.
Apple could (and should) make it harder to do this by disabling the airtag if the speaker is missing (or shorted) by measuring the impedance. It would at least raise the bar from trivial.
Stop it with these badly mastered hdr videos, it looks horrible
Buzz off
Do it yourself than and use your useless comments for yourself. Its about the idea not about the quality. videos are down to the point.
airtags shouldnt be allowed
Hi Alex, ik zou je ene paar dingen willen vragen. Zou je me even kunnen mailen op erwin@bright.nl?