Adam Kos Apple may not have found the perfect time yet to launch its long-awaited AirTags location tags. But since everything around is already ready, the company has at least expanded the functionality of the Find application. Ten years after its launch, it now officially supports third-party accessories.
The Find title has historically been used to locate iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other products Apple within personal ownership but also family sharing. However, Apple introduced an update that allows third-party products to use private and secure network browsing capabilities. New products from brands Belkin, Chipolo a VanMoof, which will fully interact with the app, will be available early next week. However, it means that existing accessories will probably not get this new feature.
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Amaya Toman The latest electric bikes VanMoof S3 and X3, headphones Belkin SOUNDFORM Freedom True wireless Earbuds a Chipolo ONE Spot Item Fin the form the first group of innovative third-party accessories that work with the Find title. For these products, the application will allow you to determine the place where the owner left his bicycle, where he dropped his headphones, and where his backpack or wallet was last located. Of course, other third-party device manufacturers may soon offer their products compatible with the Find network.
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Find My Network Accessory Program
Find My Network Accessory The program, the Find My Network Accessories program, became part of the already well-known Made program for iPhone (MFI). It is intended for all accessory developers who want to connect to the Find Your Product network. They must adhere to all the privacy protections of the Find network that Apple customers rely on. Approved products must include the “Works With Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), Find We', which clearly communicates that the product is compatible with the network and the Find app, and can be added to the new tab of the Items app. Apple also announced a draft specification for chipset manufacturers to be released later this spring. This will allow third-party device manufacturers to use Ultra technology Wideband in Apple products equipped with the U1 chip to achieve a more directionally accurate experience.
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Pavel Jelic One app, one vast global search network
Find app on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac makes it easy to find lost devices and keep up with friends and family while maintaining user privacy. If a user ever loses their Apple device, the app allows them to locate it on a map, play a sound on it to help locate it, put it into Lost Mode, and instantly lock it and display a message with a contact number. It can even remotely wipe the device if it falls into the wrong hands.
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However, the network helps locate the device even if it cannot connect to the Internet. To find them crowdsourcing a network of hundreds of millions of Apple devices that use Bluetooth wireless technology to detect missing devices nearby and report their approximate location back to the owner. The entire process is end-to-end encrypted and anonymous, so no one else, not even Apple or a third-party manufacturer, can view the device's location or information.
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A small but significant catch
Apple has allowed third-party accessory makers to "opt in" to its Find app. So much for speculation regarding the various information from the beta versions that have been interpreted as the arrival of new accessories Apple, most likely in the form of accessories AirTags. Given that Apple will then allow access to its U1 chip in the devices in question, there is no reason why any proprietary AirTags he should have developed at all and it would not have been enough for him to rely only on the solutions of others. In terms of software, you debugged it nicely. You can learn more about the news in the Find application in Apple's press release, you can also visit support website.
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