Talk:Find My

Do not merge
In various discussion I've seen the idea raise to merge this article with Find My iPhone and Find My Friends. I oppose this merging idea simply because those were separate apps with separate histories and distinct functionalities. I don't think it would be helpful to mix it all up in one article. Currently we have links to those other articles in the intro. It works well; it mirrors reality. Leave it as is. Please. --В²C ☎ 19:24, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

How it works
Apparently FindMy uses Bluetooth in a novel way (by running in other peoples' Apple products to relay messages to or from the device that needs to be found, via some kind of central database run by Apple). Do we have any good sources to describe this technology? Gnuish (talk) 05:19, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

power off
This article https://www.macworld.com/article/353362/ios-15-hidden-features-tips-tricks.html says "Track your iPhone without power", in other words, that turning off iphone might actually not turn iphone off completely, but rather do an "ultra low power state", thus "turn iphone into an airtag", keeping find my functional even after "power off" is done on an iphone (!!). Is that real or fake? I did not find any cross-reference of such behaviour yet.

Merged Find My iPhone
Find My iPhone gets 42k monthly views, while Find My get only 16k views. I'm sure the general public isn't full of software history buffs; the separate articles are confusing readers. Don't think a hatnote would solve that because people won't read it. Secondary sources treat them as the same app, just renamed/merged, so in hindsight, separate articles don't make sense.

I've boldly merged Find My iPhone into this article. DFlhb (talk) 08:36, 3 June 2023 (UTC)


 * thanks a lot for merging Find My Friends! DFlhb (talk) 11:29, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Background or History section
sorry to ping again, but I think it's better if we keep that section named "History" and move it to the bottom. One principle of good article writing is that the information most relevant to readers should come first.

I think most visitors to this article are people who lost their phones who got here by Googling "find my iphone". They're likely more interested in learning its features than its history, so I think the features section should come first.

Having "Features" be the first section, and "History" be the last, is also not uncommon in our software articles. What do you think? DFlhb (talk) 11:40, 5 June 2023 (UTC)