{"id":23789,"date":"2021-04-10T05:02:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T05:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/apples-find-my-app-is-going-to-get-a-lot-more-powerful-when-locating-your-iphone-and-more.html"},"modified":"2021-04-10T05:02:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T05:02:38","slug":"apples-find-my-app-is-going-to-get-a-lot-more-powerful-when-locating-your-iphone-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/apples-find-my-app-is-going-to-get-a-lot-more-powerful-when-locating-your-iphone-and-more.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple’s Find My app is going to get a lot more powerful when locating your iPhone and more"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is what the new Find My app icon looks like on iPhone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The next time you open the Find My app on your iPhone<\/span>, iPad<\/span> or Mac<\/span>, you’re going to notice a new Items tab along the bottom of the screen.\u00a0Apple recently announced<\/span>\u00a0a new feature that allows other companies to use Apple’s Find My network to find devices. That means you’ll soon be able to buy a Tile<\/span>-like device, wireless earbuds<\/span> or even an electric bike that can be tracked using Apple’s Find My app.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To be clear, the Find My app will still help you track down your lost iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch<\/span> or AirPods<\/span>, but the list of devices and products you can track is growing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Below I’ll walk you through the Find My app, and detail how Apple’s approach keeps your data and information private.<\/p>\n

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The Find My app now has four main tabs: People<\/strong>, Devices<\/strong>, Items<\/strong>\u00a0and Me<\/strong>. I’ll dive into the Items<\/strong> tab in the section below, but for now I want to focus on finding people, your Apple devices and Me sections of the app.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The People<\/strong> tab is where you’ll find contacts that you have shared your location with. Or if you’re part of a Family Sharing<\/span> group, everyone in your family group will show up here as well. A map takes up most of the screen, with a list of your contacts down below. Tap on a contact to zoom in on their location and view options such as getting directions to them or creating a notification.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Notifications can be useful if you want to know when a friend leaves or arrives at a location. Your contact will receive an alert whenever you create a notification related to their location, letting them know you’ll receive an alert when their location changes — no more staying up to date about their location without them knowing (and that’s a good thing).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Devices<\/strong> tab lists all of the Apple devices signed into your iCloud account, as well as any devices attached to your Family Sharing group, say your spouse’s, parents’ or kids’. You can view all of them on a map, or tap on an individual device for information. Each device listing will include the last time the device was located, its current battery level, a button to get directions to the iPhone or play a sound to help find a misplaced device. You can also mark the device as lost, activating Lost Mode<\/span>, to help in its recovery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Finally, the\u00a0Me<\/strong> tab is where you’ll find options to stop sharing your location with your friends, edit the name of a location (label your home, work, etc.), and turn friend requests on or off. A new option that’s been added to the Me tab is Item Safety<\/strong> Alerts<\/strong>. When turned on, your iPhone will alert you when an unknown device is nearby and moving with you. For example, if someone were to secretly put a Chipolo One Spot tag in your bag so they could track your location at all times, your iPhone will notify you.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This is how Find My will look as it tracks your Items.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Find My’s new Items tab<\/h2>\n

Your Apple device will need to be running iOS 14.3, iPadOS 14.3 or MacOS Big Sur 11.1 or newer in order for you to see the Items tab and connect third-party products to the app. Currently, there are only three announced products that will work with the Find My network, but Apple expects to see more products in the coming weeks and months.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The current list of products and expected availability are:<\/p>\n