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Find My Gains Option to Share Lost Item Location With an 'Airline or Trusted Person' in iOS 18.2

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Apple in iOS 18.2 beta 2 added a new feature to the Find My app, which is designed to allow you to share a lost item's location with a trusted person. Apple says that the feature is meant to help you locate an item through a third-party, like an airline employee.

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In the Find My app, there's now an option to "Share Item Location" and "Show Contact Info." Choosing the Share Item Location option creates a link that allows someone to see the location of a lost item when they open the link. The link can be opened on a non-Apple device, so people without an iPhone or Mac can help you find something that's lost. Find My links that you share expire after a week and you can see how many people visited the link. Shared links stop working when an item is returned to you or when the link sharing date expires.

Choosing Show Contact Info lets any phone or tablet connect to a lost item to open a website with more information about it, including the phone number and email address of the person who owns it.

Find My already allowed you to share an item with a person in your Contacts list, but now it also lets you temporarily provide an item's location to someone else who might be able to help you find it. The new feature for sharing a lost item works with AirTags and other devices that connect to Apple's Find My network.

Article Link: Find My Gains Option to Share Lost Item Location With an 'Airline or Trusted Person' in iOS 18.2
 
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That's awesome. The times I had lost luggage the airlines customer service (remote and in person) seemed uninterested about what my Airtag was showing as they only care about their system. The person they contacted over the radio kept failing to respond promptly but luckily luggage magically appeared on the next flight.
 
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Speaking of find my, I recently found an apple watch at a track and field track near a high school and tried to use it by hard resetting it but it was iCloud locked. But by doing the hard reset, it turned off find my. I couldn't do anything with it after but turn it into the lost and found at the high school. I think it was a fail on apple to let the watch be reset.
 
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jz0309 said:
Seems like a good new feature, and since I don’t see any mention of Apple Intelligence - this makes it real useful
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Yeah, I don’t know what the deal with Apple Intelligence is. I tried to get an Apple to write an essay but it just sat there doing nothing.

You’d have thought Apple would realize this. I mean their logo is an Apple with a bite taken out of it. It’s food, not a brain.
 
What iPhone model’s that meant to be with no notch or Dynamic Island? Judging by the extra narrow bezel it’s 16 Pro.
 
What happens if they find it first and run off with the case full of cash?

That is why it had a tracker?
 
TheMountainLife said:
That's awesome. The times I had lost luggage the airlines customer service (remote and in person) seemed uninterested about what my Airtag was showing as they only care about their system. The person they contacted over the radio kept failing to respond promptly but luckily luggage magically appeared on the next flight.
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Same happened to me until I got some pretty high up executive involved in my case. Suddenly, someone from the airline was very interested in my AirTag information and after 1 week of getting nowhere with their system he was able to physically find my bags 30 minutes after I shared my AirTag information with him. AirTag literally saved me since this representative said "their system" never showed my bags were lost so they would never go try to find them. I never travel without AirTags.
 
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LMAO I'm glad I was not the only one who had to read this like 4 times, expecting a nutrition tracker or something
 
Nice feature since many used for tracking luggage. Friends of mine don’t normally use AirTag but bought one for a trip and were telling me how great it worked meanwhile I have been using for years LOL.
 
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Speaking of find my, I recently found an apple watch at a track and field track near a high school and tried to use it by hard resetting it but it was iCloud locked. But by doing the hard reset, it turned off find my. I couldn't do anything with it after but turn it into the lost and found at the high school. I think it was a fail on apple to let the watch be reset.
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By doing a hard reset you mean pressing both buttons at the same time until the watch face turned off/stopped refreshing? And that turned off Find My? Strange.
 
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Parowdy said:
By going a hard reset you mean pressing both buttons at the same time until the watch face turned off/stopped refreshing? And that turned off Find My? Strange.
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Yes, I got to a option "erase all settings" I assume after that "find my" was off.
 
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