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incidents section addition

thought i'd share this if anyone wanted to include it

http://www.wndu.com/home/headlines/Cell-phone-app-aids-in-armed-robbery-arrest-200352311.html Kap 7 (talk) 14:38, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge with Activation Lock

Merge to save from CSD. This content is helpful and can be merged to "Features" > "Lost Mode". —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 07:39, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: the article is also suspected of copyvio, please remember to rewrite the content if merged. —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 00:39, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

James Roberts pawned this phone and Lorenzo Keys purchased it from the pawn signed with sprint and then activated find my iPhone app not the original iPhone owner and sharing data with out iCloud password now lost mode talking with James spouse waiting for iPhone device to be deleted from iCloud lock activation Topjim (talk) 21:22, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Out of date

Article needs to be updated with AirPods being added with iOS 10.3 or later. Can be find from both the app and the iCloud website. Cornea Scratcher (talk) 02:41, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 24 September 2019

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: pages moved. Per WP:RELIST, there is consensus for the move, so the move can now be performed, including from OlSaffriveons since they moved these pages as proposed prior to this discussion being closed. Any necessary article mergers can be discussed separately. (non-admin closure) Steel1943 (talk) 20:33, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Find My → Find My iPhone
Find My (app) → Find My

– Find My is not Find My iPhone. Apple has merged Find My iPhone and Find My Friends into one app (Find My). 176.225.217.188 (talk) 08:17, 24 September 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. Steel1943 (talk) 18:49, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:06, 24 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There are still two current pages: Find My Friends and Find My. These should be text-merged and updated if necessary. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:06, 24 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
~~Merge~~ Find My Friends into this article. – Thjarkur (talk) 16:38, 24 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: For the record, this probably means "merge Find My Friends into [the article currently at Find My]." Steel1943 (talk) 18:59, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per nom. Seriously. Find My is not Find My iPhone. And it's not Find My Friends either. They are separate, and the three corresponding articles are currently separate, and they should remain separate. The new Find My article properly references the two apps it is based upon, but they have a separate history (as apps and as articles) that should remain separate. --В²C ☎ 16:31, 7 October 2019 (UTC) adjusting to reflect more changes during RM - see below --В²C ☎ 19:19, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment the history is somewhat jumbled here and this should have been spelled out in the nom.
- June 3, 2019: Editchecker123 unilaterally moved page Find My iPhone to Find My: Apple renamed "Find my iPhone) [1]
- September 24, 2019: Anthony Appleyard starts this RM based on converting an IP's technical request requesting that the previous unilateral move be reversed because "Find My is not Find My iPhone". [2]
- October 6, 2019: While this RM is still open, OlSaffriveons moved page Find My to Find My iPhone: As of iOS 12 release name[3].
- October 6, 2019: OlSaffriveons replaces redirect to this article at Find My to start a new article there which has evolved.

Because of the Oct 6 move and subsequent edits at Find My this current proposed move here is non-sensical (and I stand by my oppose given the current situation - however I would have supported the original move to revert the June 3 unilateral move; however that revert happened on Oct 6 so now I'm oppose to any further moves). EXCEPT, the Talk pages are not quite right. Currently Talk:Find My redirects to Talk:Find My iPhone and that needs to be a separate talk page. The right thing to do here is leave well enough alone, close this as "already done", and maybe trout OlSaffriveons for moving an article while a related RM is open. --В²C ☎ 16:54, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Born2cycle: Please see my relisting comment below. Steel1943 (talk) 18:54, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: The "Find My (app) → Find My" move request was not part of this discussion until I added it in this relist. Also, I reverted the "Find My iPhone → Find My" move for now since as mentioned above, it was moved WP:BOLDLY while this ongoing discussion was occurring. (The leftover redirect at "Find My" from the aforementioned move was replaced by an article, which I have moved to "Find My (app)" for now/until this discussion closes.)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Steel1943 (talk) 18:49, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support as proposed in revised nom after relist. Find My is not Find My iPhone. And it's not Find My Friends either. They are separate, and the three corresponding articles are currently separate, and they should remain separate and be named according to their respective app names. The new Find My (app) article properly references the two apps it is based upon, but should be moved back to Find My. --В²C ☎ 19:19, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I proposed merging them all together above as sources just call it "Apple has merged these apps together into one" [4][5]. They're not literally the same app, but it might be enough to list "Find my iPhone" and "Find my Friends" in the history section of a merged article due to the overlap in what can be written about them here. If people are against a merge then I support moving this article back to the original title "Find my iPhone", a new article at this title should then be created. – Thjarkur (talk) 19:59, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks. The new article already exists at Find My (app). And while it's accurate to say the functionality of the two original apps was included in this new app, the result was an all-new app with a very different interface, history, etc., not a merge. --В²C ☎ 20:07, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Question: @OlSaffriveons: Do you support the move request in its current form? Steel1943 (talk) 20:21, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- ...Actually, taking into account that this editor performed the situation being currently proposed before I performed the reverts, to me, it is clear that they do support this move. Steel1943 (talk) 20:27, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Blocked Countries

Mention needs to be made of those countries where Find My iphone is blocked due to regulatory requiremnts. 2A00:23C7:5BC4:9101:295C:B372:AEAC:969C (talk) 12:49, 27 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]