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Take Control of Find My and AirTags, 5th edition
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Take Control of Find My and AirTags, 5th edition

by Glenn Fleishman
September 2026
Intermediate to advanced
173 pages
3h 55m
English
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Enable Find My

Find My comprises multiple different services blended together into a single app. In this chapter, I explain how to enable Find My on your hardware, requiring a deeper dig into which devices support Find My.

Find My comes in three flavors:

  • Device-based, two-way short-range and internet: This version is the original and better understood, and can be enabled on devices: an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, and, by extension, an Apple Watch paired with an iPhone. The device actively sends its location over the internet whenever the internet is available. Find My Device allows the owner of a device to send remote events, like playing a sound or triggering erasure, to a device. Apple and Beats audio devices near their paired device act like this ...

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ISBN: 9781778043932