Find my iPhone

Today Apple has launched the beta of its update 10.3 of iOS And among its novelties we find a very interesting tool. And now, the native app Find my iPhone also allows you to find Airpods, the new wireless headphones from Apple available since Christmas, and that Tim Cook himself considers a « running success» in sales.

Now, when entering Find my iPhone, we will find the possibility to search for a headset AirPod lost.The operation of this app originally consisted of locating the device on a map, as is done with the iPhone However, not having the Airpods connection GPS, what we will find in this particular function is a closeness meter with the device paired via the signal strength. We still do not know in what way this measurement will be developed, what we do know is that it will be necessaryThat the lost Airpod has power so it can be recognized.

Mystery Solved

At the beginning of the year we heard about an application called Finder for Airpods, which offered precisely this function, a signal strength meter on earphone AirPod lost. A very good idea that for a negligible cost (4 euros) could help us avoid the 80 euros that costs to replace a headset in the store Apple

The developer company was Deucks Pty, specialized in search apps for other devices such as the FitBit or the Xiaomi Mi Band, and predicted a important successfor this Finder for Airpods However, within days of appearing, the app was abruptly withdrawn of the App Store, without giving any explanation.

Now, less than a month later, there's this new feature for iOS, and we can't help itconnecting the dots with an explanatory theory: the Deucks Pty team got ahead to Apple in a function that they had not yet prepared, so they decided to remove it from their store of apps so that it didn't overshadow this tool when it was released officially

If this is true, this would be a rather dirty maneuver on the part of Apple, blocking an external app just because you thought faster than them Ultimately it's true, the The App Store is yours and you can do whatever you want with it, but maybe those weren't the ways Anyway, this is all part of a hypothesis

Aside from cabals and theories, the truth is that users of AirPods They are finally going to have a tool to be able to search for their headphones without going crazy, since they are small devices and without cable. Its specific functioning and its effectiveness remains to be tested, but we imagine that for short distances it will be quite effective.For long distances it won't be very useful, because if we left an earphone in a lost taxi, there will be no search engineHelp us.

Those of you who still had your doubts now have one more good reason to get the AirPods , which are available at the Apple store for 180 euros.