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iPhone 16e Apple MagSafe wallet not showing in Find my

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Just set up new 16e and while my MagSafe Apple wallet attached firmly to the Torras MagSafe ultra thin case, it does not show in Find My. Is this because 16e does not have MagSafe ?
Yet the 16e does work at tap and pay machines so shouldn’t it also work with
Find My as well
My other devices show up in Find My. - watch, iPad Pro, and my AirPods 4. Why them does the wallet which is the FineWoven one with the chip in it for find my ??
 
Zapdoc said:
Is this because 16e does not have MagSafe ?
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Yes, you need to attach it to the iPhone's MagSafe in order for it to detect the wallet and prompt you to add it to Find My. Since the 16e doesn't have MagSafe, it's unable to tell if anything is attached.

Even if you could get it into Find My, it still wouldn't with the 16e because the phone would have no way of knowing when it separated from MagSafe.

The wallet doesn't have Find My capabilities like AirTags and other devices do...it only goes by when it separates from MagSafe and shows you the last known location of when this happened (or when someone else attaches the wallet to their phone to update its location).
 
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BigBlur said:
Yes, you need to attach it to the iPhone's MagSafe in order for it to detect the wallet and prompt you to add it to Find My. Since the 16e doesn't have MagSafe, it's unable to tell if anything is attached.

Even if you could get it into Find My, it still wouldn't with the 16e because the phone would have no way of knowing when it separated from MagSafe.

The wallet doesn't have Find My capabilities like AirTags and other devices do...it only goes by when it separates from MagSafe and shows you the last known location of when this happened (or when someone else attaches the wallet to their phone to update its location).
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OK thanks just to clarify it’s normal then for this behaviour of iPhone 16e and Find my MagSafe wallet. Wallet did show with my previous iPhone 16 plus
Not to worry I’ll just use it as a nice Wallet without find me
 
Zapdoc said:
OK thanks just to clarify it’s normal then for this behaviour of iPhone 16e and Find my MagSafe wallet. Wallet did show with my previous iPhone 16 plus
Not to worry I’ll just use it as a nice Wallet without find me
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Another thing the iPhone 16e does show watch, iPad and MacBook in Find my which is why I thought there was a problem with the MagSafe wallet
 
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As mentioned previously the lack of MagSafe on the 16e is likely why it isn’t showing up on Find My.

If you tap the + button on the Devices tab I suspect you don’t see an option to ‘Add MagSafe Accessory’?
 
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