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> This is literally only a problem for people too stubborn to set up Find My I disagree with this. I have never enabled Find My because for privacy reasons I d
by rbut 3y ago
> This is literally only a problem for people too stubborn to set up Find My
I disagree with this. I have never enabled Find My because for privacy reasons I don't want my location being transmitted to Apple.
What would be better is some means of opting out of Find My being able to ever be enabled on my device.
If I ever sold my device I'd have to communicate that to the buyer, and I may lose some resale value, but that's a compromise I'd be willing to make.
- ahepp 3y agoThat's an interesting idea. Some kind of e-fuse that can permanently disable Find My. As you say, there are some concerns for resale, but let's assume those can be worked out. I am not sure I see the feature being very useful. If you have lost your laptop without Find My enabled, and someone else gained possession of the laptop and wanted to activate Find My but couldn't because of this feature, you would still almost certainly not be able to recover the laptop. So what does the feature do? Take this story, for example. If the laptop hadn't been bricked, it seems unlikely that it would have found its way back to OP.
- chongli 3y agoYou can turn on Find My and disable location services for the device. That prevents it from being tracked but still enables you to lock and remote wipe. What would be better is some means of opting out of Find My being able to ever be enabled on my device. How would that work? A fuse inside the device? Seems like it would make the device vulnerable to an electrical hack. Why would Apple develop such a feature anyway? I bet fewer than 1% of users would use it.