Find My

The Chipolo POP proved a popular AirTag competitor when it launched earlier this year, and the company has now added two further Find My compatible trackers.

The new models are the Loop and a new version of the Card, with the former essentially a Pop with an integrated silicon loop for even easier attachment to bags, keys, and so on …

A new report suggests that many people who belong to Gen Z use Find My and other apps to permanently share their location with groups of friends.

A study earlier in the year found that 40% of Gen Z adults share their location with three or more people, and a new piece found it was common to location-share with double digit numbers of friends …

There’s a robust ecosystem of Find My accessories on the market nowadays. All of these accessories would make great additions to your life. After all, what’s a better investment than a way to keep track of their most important possessions?

Apple is gearing up to launch AirTag 2 soon, but four years after the first AirTag debuted, a new test of competing options on Google’s ‘Find My Device’ network shows that Apple is still very much ahead in lost item tracking.

The new Chipolo POP is a colorful new tracking tag that works with both Apple’s Find My and Google’s Find My Device networks. Unlike AirTag, it has a built-in hole for easy attachment to keyrings and bags.

It’s not the first time that we’ve seen Find My-compatible trackers from the company – we tested one of them back in 2021 – but it’s the first time you haven’t had to use an app to get cross-platform compatibility …

Apple’s Find My network lets users easily track their devices and accessories such as AirTag. However, despite having anti-stalking features, researchers at George Mason University recently discovered an exploit that lets hackers silently track any Bluetooth device through Apple’s network. The vulnerability isn’t in Apple products, but rather Linux, Android, and Windows systems…

With iOS 18.2, Apple supercharged AirTags with a new feature called “Share Item Location.” This feature lets you share the location of a lost AirTag or Find My network accessory with a trusted third party.

As part of the launch of Share Item Location, Apple is teaming up with airlines worldwide. Here are all the airlines that support this new feature

iOS 18.2 introduced a new feature for AirTag and other items in the Find My app, and it may just save you a lot of stress and trouble the next time you lose something important.

Last week, iOS 18.2 introduced a handy new Find My upgrade for sharing your lost item’s location with others—including airlines. Now, Apple has announced which major airlines already support the feature.

Apple last month announced a new Share Item Location feature for helping to track AirTags and Apple devices, and said at the time that it would be partnering with more than 15 airlines. Those airlines would accept links from passengers tracking mislaid baggage.

United Airlines has now shown how it will integrate the feature into its mobile app, enabling customers to easily add the links …

Snapchat is rolling out a new feature which will work in a similar way to Apple’s Find My app, but will be limited to family members.

Parents will be able to request the location of the teens, and vice-versa, with some automated location reporting also available …

Getting help to find lost items will become much easier with the next iOS update. That’s because Apple is adding new options to the Find My app with iOS 18.2 that will let users share the location of an AirTag or other lost item with anyone, not just friends or family.

Time and again, Apple’s Find My technology turns out responsible for tracking stolen goods. In the case of a recent Connecticut theft, a very expensive Ferrari was tracked down thanks to the millionaire owner accidentally leaving AirPods in the vehicle.

Satechi is out with several new releases today at IFA Berlin. Headlining its new products is the Vegan-Leather Passport Cover with Find My. The cover/wallet features Apple’s official item tracking, a MagSafe/Qi2-rechargeable battery, RFID protection, and more.

Apple’s ‘Find My’ app and service have been available as iPhone features in the US and many other territories for years. But never, previously, in Korea. Now, Apple has announced that the wait for South Korean users is almost over.

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG) announced this week the specifications for the next generation of technology called “Bluetooth 6.0.” It brings a number of enhancements to the wireless protocol, but one of them will help Apple improve its Find My network for tracking devices.

SwitchBot has just made it easier to keep track of your wallet with its new Wallet Finder Card. It is fully integrated with Apple’s Find My network and can be used in smart homes with SwitchBot’s Matter-enabled lock. Thus, it looks to be a great device that solves two problems with one product.

Apple hasn’t launched a proper social network since iTunes Ping crashed and burned. But some Apple features nonetheless function like social apps, such as iMessage or the shared albums feature in Photos. The latest such trend, it seems, has made Apple’s ‘Find My’ a key social app for keeping up with close friends and family.

A petition has highlighted a puzzling fact: Find My is available in every country in the world except Korea, and nobody seems to understand why.

While many had assumed this to be a restriction imposed by the South Korean government, officials say that isn’t the case, and it’s Apple which has imposed the ban …