Enable Find My
Earlier in the book, I described how 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, which requires a deeper dig into which devices can 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, a 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.
Find My notification network: ...
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