MacRumors has obtained never-before-seen screenshots of a new “Items” tab that Apple is developing for its Find My app in iOS 13. This tab is not available in the public version of the software update released today.
Similar to the existing “People” and “Devices” tabs in the Find My app, the “Items” tab will display a map at the top and a list of items associated with a user’s Apple ID account at the bottom… The new “Items” tab will be closely integrated with Apple’s rumored Tile-like item tracking tags, codenamed “B389” internally. By tapping the “Add” button in the tab, users will be able to track the location of items affixed with so-called Apple Tags directly within the Find My app.
The tab informs users to “tag your everyday items with B389 and never lose them again,” making it clear that Apple is working on a Tile competitor.
MacDailyNews Take: Expect to see Apple Tags, or whatever Apple calls them, unveiled next month at an Apple special event that will also reveal the all-new 16-inch MacBook Pro along with the shipping dates for Apple’s new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
As much as I’ve come to depend on my Tiles, there are a few minor annoyances I hope Apple will improve upon. Primarily I am looking forward to this because I don’t trust any company (other than Apple) to not monetize my location data in some sneaky way buried in layers of legalize within their terms and conditions.
Not trolling, but I find it unlikely that Apple will improve on it functionally. They’ve really become good at “firing up their copiers” (to borrow from an old Apple ad) and bringing products to market that someone else already has.
Without improvement except, I suppose, sometimes making them out of very scratch-able materials.