Apple makes finding lost products easier with the iPhone

For those in the Apple ecosystem, finding their lost products was slightly easier with the Find My app. Apple is now extending the functionalities of the app to other companies as well. The app has been updated allowing third-party products to use the finding capabilities of Apple's Find My network. According to an official post on Apple's Newsroom, the Find My network accessory program opens up the Find My network to third-party device manufacturers to build products utilising the service, so their customers can use the Find My app to locate and keep track of certain important items. How does Find My app work? The Find My app utilises Apple devices' Bluetooth signals which create a network of devices searching for lost items. Simply put, it is a crowdsourced network of Apple devices that use Bluetooth wireless technology to detect missing devices or items nearby, and report their approximate location back to the owner. Apple maintains that the entire process is end-to-end encrypted and anonymous, so no one else, not even Apple or the third-party manufacturer, can view a device's location or information. If a user ever loses their Apple device, the Find My app allows them to locate it… Read full this story

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