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Maybe you don't want to be tracked sometimes, and you expect turning off your device to turn it off.
What situation are you going, "I don't want big tech to be tracking me right now"?
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The police in my country wouldn't even bother to check, they have rapists and drug dealers to deal with.
Yeah I'm baffled by all of the comments saying that this is great as an anti-theft feature. I don't know where people live that that's the case, but I sure as heck have never known police in the US to give a damn about $1000 property crimes. They don't care about $20000 home robberies and car thefts, even with strong video or other evidence. I can't imagine they're going to start chasing down criminals to get a used…
But if they actually turned off power, they'd lose track of where you are. They'd lose the tracking information needed for marketing. Can't have that. Does "airplane mode" still shut off all transmitters?
It is best to treat electronics as always on and always recording and transmitting everything.
Apple is very clear that this is how things work now. They even give you a dialog prompt now to inform you of this change the first time you try to shut your device off - https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/07/ios-15-find-my-network-can-fi... I'm not sure why this is presented as some new thing, or a gotcha or whatever this is. We've known about it for months... And IMO, it's a positive change although it does sound a little…
> They even give you a dialog prompt now to inform you slightly tangential, I hate being informed of things when I try to do them. I'm in a hurry, I don't want to read all about something now. I wish the dialogs had an "email this to me, willya?" selection, with an opportunity to decide the long term setting that I want.
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> They even give you a dialog prompt now to inform you slightly tangential, I hate being informed of things when I try to do them. I'm in a hurry, I don't want to read all about something now. I wish the dialogs had an "email this to me, willya?" selection, with an opportunity to decide the long term setting that I want.
this lowers engagement metrics, so probably not going to happen
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Settings -> (Your Name/Apple ID ...) -> Find My -> Find My iPhone -> Find My Network in latest iOS.
Does 5 levels deep count as easy to find?
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Wow, first I've heard of it. Seems to be enabled by default too -- I think users definitely are not "clear" about it.
The "slide to power off" prompt literally says "iPhone Findable after Power Off >" right under it every time, but 99% of users will never see it or care about this feature because no one ever turns their phone off. But if you're one of those few people who does turn the phone off, it says right there, and you can tap on it to shut down to unfindable state this time instead. Note that it requires a passcode to disable…
Sometimes turning it off and on again is the only way to get wi-fi syncing to work.
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Settings -> (Your Name/Apple ID ...) -> Find My -> Find My iPhone -> Find My Network in latest iOS.
Does 5 levels deep count as easy to find?
