Find My iPhone and Find My Friends app could be merged into a single app according to 9to5Mac’s Guilherme Rambo, citing sources familiar with those ongoing developments and tests on the app.
Find My iPhone enables you to implement many measures in case you lost your device like to put it in a Lost Mode or remotely erase your iPhone, according to the report the expected unified app will add another feature called “find network,” which will allow Apple devices to be tracked even when they are not connected to a cellular network or Wi-Fi.
Some Find My Friends features will also be combined into the new app including location-based from family and friends, and location sharing.
The app will run on both iOS and macOS, as part of Apple’s cross-platform initiative called “Marzipan.” The time launch is unknown but it could be with iOS 13, which will be previewed at WWDC in June, the report claimed that the app is internally codenamed “Green Torch.”
Apple tracker product
The reporter also mentions that a new hardware product that functions like the Tile device is being worked on, the new product is in the form of “tag” that can be attached to any item, it will rely on proximity to an iPhone, and should be connected to a user iCloud Account.Like the Tile when the device goes far away from the tag it will get notifications, excluding common locations that have already set to be ignored, like a work office where the item could be left without receiving of notifications.
Rambo also reports that users will be able to save their contact information in the tag, and they will be notified once it is found. Apple could create a crowdsourced network, taking advantage of its hundreds of millions of active devices, that will help its users to find lost items with the assist of this product.
The launch date of the new Apple’s product tracker is not provided, but it might be unveiled in September alongside new iPhones.
Data source: 9to5Mac via Macrumors
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