Find a stolen or offline iPad or iPhone
It is one of the most searched topics on the internet. The possibility of finding a lost, stolen or offline mobile brings people who, unfortunately, have lost their iPhone to their heads. , iPad, Mac . iOS 13 will help us locate them.
Until now, with iOS 12 and earlier, we were able to locate our devices using the "Search" app, which will be renamed "Find My" in iOS 13 This app locates our iPhone, iPad as long as it's on and with an internet connection but what if it's on but no connection?The new iOS will allow you to locate it if that happens.
That is why the friends of others will have it much more difficult to hide their thefts. Unless turned off, iPhone or other Apple devices will give away where you are.
It goes without saying that if the iPhone is turned off, it will be impossible to find it.
How to find a stolen or offline iPhone:
Find My from iOS 13
iOS 13 allows you to communicate with other nearby Apple products (15-20 m. maximum) via Bluetooth . This will always allow the devices to be located.
The iPhone, iPad will broadcast a small, fully encrypted packet of data wirelessly so that other users can help transmit the location.This will cause Apple devices around you to react and be able to create a mesh network that triangulates your location. For this, the only condition that needs to be met is that it is turned on and that they have the latest operating system for their device installed.
In the case of the iPhone it would be iOS 13 , iPadOS for iPad, WatchOS 6 for Apple Watch and macOS Catalina for the Mac.
This would mean that if, imagine, a thief steals our iPhone and turns it off, we won't be able to locate it. But the moment you turn it on, if there is any Apple device within 15-20 meters away, it would allow you to locate it, whether or not you have an internet connection.
It should be noted that a user must have at least two Apple devices, in order to track the lost, stolen, misplaced device with one of them. Otherwise, the different keys cannot be decrypted and the function cannot be used.
If you are wondering if this will affect battery life, we can tell you that it will do so minimally since the amount of data shared is very small.
If you are wondering about privacy, tell you that all this is done anonymously and completely encrypted.
