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The current Find My iPhone app (Paradigm credit: Tom's Guide)

The companion app for Apple AirTags has been leaked online, revealing how Apple will change up the mode and functionality of tracking tags when they finally launch.

The screenshot comes courtesy of blue_kanikama on Twitter (via TechRadar). This account has leaked other Apple tree data in the past, so we can be fairly certain that this is genuine.

(Image credit: blue_kanikama)

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AirTags are Apple's long-rumored rival to Tile and other tracking tags. Too every bit performing the standard features of showing the tag's location on a companion app, Apple also wants to let users find their lost items more easily with an AR lens fashion and the selection to find other people's lost tags and return them.

The companion app is what we're seeing in this leaked image, along with menu options to set up the tag, testify its owner information, switch to the AR view or to make the tags play a sound in order to find it.

These sounds leaked before this year (ii minutes and 3 seconds into the video below), and feature a small variety of unlike pings to help you notice your lost items, as well as signify successful connections and disconnections.

The official announcement of this features is expected to come at WWDC 2020, during the keynote on June 22. This is the time of year when Apple reveals the updates to all its software and operating systems with all its developers present (admitting merely virtually this twelvemonth).

There has been hardware announcements at previous WWDC events, however, so information technology wouldn't be out of the question to see AirTags announced hither. If they don't, then the next most likely fourth dimension we'll come across them will be for the iPhone 12 reveal around September/Oct.

Richard is a Tom's Guide staff writer based in London, covering news, reviews and how-tos for phones, gaming, audio and whatever else people need advice on. Post-obit on from his MA in Mag Journalism at the University of Sheffield, he'southward also written for WIRED U.K., The Register and Artistic Bloq. When not at piece of work, he's likely thinking about how to brew the perfect cup of specialty coffee.

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