{"id":312,"date":"2026-01-07T04:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/matt-find-my-update\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T04:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:30:48","slug":"matt-find-my-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/matt-find-my-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Find My Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best part about blogging is the comments, and after I <a href=\"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2026\/01\/find-my-upgrade\/\">posted<\/a> \u201cI wish that when you use Find My to find your iPhone, it would also flash the flashlight, which would be great for finding it in a bag or a dark room.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/gravatar.com\/mwenderwenmark\">Michael Wender<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/artiss.me\/\">David Artiss<\/a> jumped in that it\u2019s already there!<\/p>\n<p>Apple support <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/watch\/ping-your-iphone-apddd5a326d2\/watchos\">says if you touch and hold it will flash the light<\/a>! Now I haven\u2019t been able to get this to work yet, perhaps because when I did, I got a notice that Precision Finding, which uses ultra-wideband (UWB) frequencies to help you find your phone or Airtag, which is magical, isn\u2019t available in all regions. I\u2019m currently stranded in St. Martin because of airspace issues with Venezuela, and apparently, this is one of the countries, like Indonesia, where UWB doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Hours later, the press-and-hold thing now flashes the light, so it must have been a heisenbug.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best part about blogging is the comments, and after I posted \u201cI wish that when you use Find My to find your iPhone, it would also flash the flashlight, which would be great for finding it in a bag or a dark room.\u201d Michael Wender and David Artiss jumped in that it\u2019s already there! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}