Is this the year Apple finally launches AirTags? Forever ‘just around the corner’, the latest version of iOS not only has the hooks ready to go, but anyone is able to preview the hidden feature on the iPhone today.
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Previous details strongly suggested that Apple’s geolocation tags use the ‘Find My’ app available on its three major platforms – iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. And all you have to do is have the built-in web browser. Joe Rossignol reports:
“MacRumors reader, David Chu today he warned us that the hidden “Objects” tab in the Find My app can be enabled on an iPhone or iPad by typing in the findmy finder: // objects in Safari on devices running iOS 14.3 or iPadOS 14.3 or later. After entering the URL, a prompt will appear that directs users to the hidden tab in the Find My app. “
Apple has been surprisingly ‘leaky’ around its rival to Tile. He’s been dancing around third-party geolocation devices at WWDC 2020 and how they can appear in ‘Find My’. Throw in Apple’s own reference to the product in last year’s tutorial videos, and you have two main pieces of evidence surrounding the result. Co-event? Surprisingly, now we have a third.
The biggest question is why the product was not launched. Apple may be hoping to integrate new technology to offer a product that is a step up from the aforementioned Tile and other geotag companies; there may be something wrong with the product offer that does not respond; or it may have concluded that a result for ‘finding lost objects’ is not going to have a significant impact in the midst of the COVID-19-driven lockout.
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