> your phone doesn't have internet access
> simply based on a BLE ping
What if they disable Bluetooth?
The linked open source find my device app uses cell network to both receive commands and for location.
> simply based on a BLE ping
What if they disable Bluetooth?
The linked open source find my device app uses cell network to both receive commands and for location.
It wouldn't do a lot of good if thieves could just turn off Bluetooth, right?
The design of this is pretty clever: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluet....
I presume somewhere you can turn this off for real, but the defaults seem sensible to me.
I'd guess that Bluetooth will never fully shut off, it would just look like it's turned off to other apps that would want to use it.