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Find My App: Everything to Know
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AirPods need a way to be located if they’re in the case. Right now, you can only find AirPods if you left them out of the case. Good luck finding where you last left your AirPods if you’re doing the right thing and putting them in their case when not in use.
I want the ability to tether an Apple Watch to an iphone. That way it immediately lets you know if you left your phone behind like in the Airplane example, or left sitting on a chair or table in a restaurant or left in an Uber or Lyft or if it has fallen out of your pocket and you didn’t even know it.
It would be helpful to so many people.
It would be helpful to so many people.
I noticed this is missing as well. I opened a ticket in the Feedback app, but it doesn’t say that there are any other similar reports. I’m afraid that there’s so few of us who use it that they won’t include it in this version. I have hoped with every update that they’ll bring it back. I hate feature regression.
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Sux if it’s gone. Now, it seems you must go to the other device and have it share your location from it.
I liked being able to set my location as from any of my devices by using my main device.
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I have just updated to iOS 13 on my iPad and not too keen on the find my app so far.
In find my friends and also on the photos posted in this article it showed how many miles away each friend was. My new app does not show this, it only says the locations. Is there a way to add back the distance feature? Many thanks.
In find my friends and also on the photos posted in this article it showed how many miles away each friend was. My new app does not show this, it only says the locations. Is there a way to add back the distance feature? Many thanks.
Hello,
after ios 13 apple decided to put together "find my iphone" and "find my friends" apps into one app called "find my". i was using all 2 apps and after this ios 13 update i can't see "people" tab under "find my" app. When i open the app, it seems to appear, but disappears in a second.
my model no : a2101
any idea?
thanks
after ios 13 apple decided to put together "find my iphone" and "find my friends" apps into one app called "find my". i was using all 2 apps and after this ios 13 update i can't see "people" tab under "find my" app. When i open the app, it seems to appear, but disappears in a second.
my model no : a2101
any idea?
thanks
I agree, they need to add back the option to refresh the locations. Apple seem to think this app is used for sinister reasons but some of us have very legitimate reasons for seeing where someone is.
Not being able to refresh the location like we could in the old find friends is very frustrating.
I think they stopped allowing the ability to set any location from your main device in the High Sierra and the previous iOS version as well.
It was reported that "Find My" requires that you have at least two devices associated with your Apple ID but on my iPhone XR with iOS 13, I have it activated, including the "offline" option yet I only have one device associated with my Apple ID. Does that mean it no longer requires two devices to work?
So I am living a pretty amazing example of how the new Find Me feature works.
Today I flew across the country and made a connection at Dallas/Ft. Worth. I had a short connection and my connecting gate was a long way away, and in my rush to get off the plane, I stupidly left my iPad on the first plane. I didn't discover it was missing until I was on the second plane, and it wasn't possible to get back to the other side of DFW to try to retrieve it.
I had put the iPad into Airplane Mode, as required by law, at the beginning of the flight, but I actually didn't use it, so it was still in Airplane Mode. I thought there would be no chance to use Find My.
But lo and behold, Find My worked. It showed that my iPad was still at the gate, on the plane. And then a little later, my iPad was over the Gulf of Mexico, so I did some detective work and discovered that "my" plane's next flight was to Guatamala. Sure enough, a couple more hours passed and it showed up at a gate at the airport in Guatemala City.
Now my iPad is at a hotel in Guatemala City. I'm hoping that a member of the flight crew has it and that perhaps I will get it back. If a passenger took it, I don't expect I'll see it again.
I'm obviously dismayed at losing my precious iPad and at my stupidity for leaving it behind, but it's fascinating to be able to watch its journey and see how this very unexpected technology works.
Today I flew across the country and made a connection at Dallas/Ft. Worth. I had a short connection and my connecting gate was a long way away, and in my rush to get off the plane, I stupidly left my iPad on the first plane. I didn't discover it was missing until I was on the second plane, and it wasn't possible to get back to the other side of DFW to try to retrieve it.
I had put the iPad into Airplane Mode, as required by law, at the beginning of the flight, but I actually didn't use it, so it was still in Airplane Mode. I thought there would be no chance to use Find My.
But lo and behold, Find My worked. It showed that my iPad was still at the gate, on the plane. And then a little later, my iPad was over the Gulf of Mexico, so I did some detective work and discovered that "my" plane's next flight was to Guatamala. Sure enough, a couple more hours passed and it showed up at a gate at the airport in Guatemala City.
Now my iPad is at a hotel in Guatemala City. I'm hoping that a member of the flight crew has it and that perhaps I will get it back. If a passenger took it, I don't expect I'll see it again.
I'm obviously dismayed at losing my precious iPad and at my stupidity for leaving it behind, but it's fascinating to be able to watch its journey and see how this very unexpected technology works.
What is the refresh rate on Find My?
My phone is on 15b5 and my wife is on 14.7.1. When I go into Find My and locate her location there seems to be a delay on refreshing her location. Usually I have to quit the App and open it again to get a new location. It would be helpful to watch her location change in real time.
My phone is on 15b5 and my wife is on 14.7.1. When I go into Find My and locate her location there seems to be a delay on refreshing her location. Usually I have to quit the App and open it again to get a new location. It would be helpful to watch her location change in real time.