Only the person seeking the lost device can see the item’s location.Īpple’s AirTags do pose more of a privacy risk, but Apple has taken steps to make it harder for people to use AirTags to track people without their knowledge. According to Apple, neither it nor third parties can access the location of your devices on the Find My network. Unless the beacon radio has an independent power source, it follows that device power management may require modification to provide an additional power state between OFF and Sleep as required.Apple has worked to avoid privacy issues whenever possible, engineering a system that utilizes end-to-end encryption while also transmitting anonymized data to keep your device’s location known only to you while also keeping your identity and location private when using a device that’s active in the Find My network. This facet of existing BT functionality might be constructively exploited with addition of active “listening” capability on devices with an active network connection - or through additional beacon capability. The majority of Bluetooth radios (including iPad and iPhone) are already detectable, using appropriate monitoring hardware/software, when the host device is in the low-power (sleep) state. In a “can be detected” mode, one or more BTLE/UWB radios will be in a low power “beacon” state - advertising presence to devices.

Speaking therefore from a purely generic technical standpoint… OFF (as in “shipping condition”) will be fully OFF (i.e., all radios disabled).

Perhaps my point has been missed - noting that we obviously cannot speculate as to the actual implementation of new features until their detail has been announced.

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