Apple has recently begun pushing firmware updates to AirTags. It was originally planned to be carried out gradually in batches and completed by April 9. However, things don’t seem to be going as planned…
Last week, it was reported that AirTag has received a firmware update. The new firmware versions are 2A73 and 2.0.73. Compared with the 2.0.61 version released in October last year, some bug fixes and other improvements have been added.
In order to prevent the server from being overloaded by all AirTags being updated at the same time, Apple usually updates in batches and pushes them on specified dates based on different serial number ranges. According to Macworld, the update was originally scheduled to begin on March 19 and be completed on April 9.
But the reality is that all AirTags updated their firmware on the same day. Twitter account iSoftware Updates shared the reason: Apple used the wrong date format.
iSoftware Updates pointed out in a tweet that Apple seems to have mistakenly formatted the firmware update date as “m/d/24” instead of the “m/d/2024” that has been used in previous versions. The AirTag update system interpreted the date as 24 years old, causing the device to skip the batch update and directly push the full amount.
This explains why everyone’s AirTags received the update on the same day. Some netizens commented that the system should report an error when encountering a double-digit year instead of accepting it directly.
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