When it picks up one of these signals, the participating phone tags the data with its own current GPS location then it sends the whole package up to Apple’s servers. Every active iPhone will continuously monitor for BLE beacon messages that might be coming from a lost device. The idea of the new system is to turn Apple’s existing network of iPhones into a massive crowdsourced location tracking system. Unlike Apple’s “ Find my iPhone“, which uses cellular communication and the lost device’s own GPS to identify the location of a missing phone, “Find My” also lets you find devices that don’t have cellular support or internal GPS - things like laptops, or (and Apple has hinted at this only broadly) even “dumb” location tags that you can attach to your non-electronic physical belongings. More Apple Watch news: For the latest news on the Apple Watch Series 8, click here.Įditor’s note: This article was originally published on Apand has been updated since then.At Monday’s WWDC conference, Apple announced a cool new feature called “Find My”. It’s time to think about your data and your Watch. It’s so useful and important in your everyday life. You can also choose to use an Apple Watch band or a protective case to keep your timepiece from breaking. As soon as the watch is removed from your wrist, like in a scenario in which someone steals it, the Watch locks until you enter the correct four-digit PIN. To make the security feature less annoying during everyday use, also enable Unlock with iPhone option, which will keep your Watch unlocked for as long as you’re wearing it. Visit the Passcode section and then Turn Passcode On, if you haven’t enabled it in the first place when setting up the watch. To do so, simply head to the My Watch app on the iPhone.
Naturally, you can take precautions to at least prevent sensitive data loss on the Watch by setting up a passcode for it. Head to and remove your cards associated with Apple Pay. The Watch, on top of costing hundreds of dollars depending on the chosen model, can also contain precious information including credit cards used for Apple Pay. If worst comes to worst, you click Erase Apple Watch to protect your data if you think it’s in the wrong hands. You’ll also be able to put it into Lost Mode, which will show people who pick up your Apple Watch how to contact you (and you can put in a phone number or email address for that). For those who lost their iPhone too, you can log into and do this all through that as well.
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