Apple finally launches its Find My network in South Korea
Apple announced today that iPhone customers in South Korea can at long last track their devices, items and friends using the built-in Find My app.
The announcement quotes David Dorn, senior director of Apple’s service products, who highlighted the key features the crowd-sourced Find My network provides.
Like iPhone owners elsewhere, Apple’s customers in South Korea can now flip a toggle in Settings to add their device to the Find My network. All devices and accessories added to Find My such as compatible e-bikes and personal item trackers, can be easily tracked and their location pinpointed on a map.
In Lost Mode, a device displays the owner’s custom message and contact information. Screenless devices like AirTags can be tapped against the top of the iPhone to reveal a notification with a link to a special webpage that displays the owner’s custom message.
Apple launches Find My in South Korea
For security reasons, Apple devices marked as lost can be wiped remotely. And devices with a built-in speaker, like the AirPods case, can be beeped remotely. Turning Find My on automatically enables Activation Lock, a security feature that prevents the device from being set up without the owner’s Apple account password.
The Find My app is available on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows PCs and on the web at icloud.com/find. On the Apple Watch, Apple provides separate Find Devices, Find Items and Find People apps for keeping track of your Apple devices, personal item trackers like AirTag, and friends and family members.
On the iPhone 14 and newer, the Find My app can also report the users’s location over satellite in areas without cellular service or Wi‑Fi.
How Find My works
Leveraging Bluetooth technology, every iOS device that participates in the Find My network picks up Bluetooth signals of nearby devices such as AirTags and other personal item trackers, reporting their anonymous and encrypted locations back to the network. This lets you pinpoint an AirTag location even though the accessory has only Bluetooth and no GPS. On devices equipped with ultra-wideband networking, like the iPhone 15 and later, Find My supports a feature called Precision Finding that guides you right up to the lost item or person you’re looking for.
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