![]() ![]() Once a device is registered in SmartThings Find, Offline Finding leverages millions of Samsung community members to help find the last known location of your supported Galaxy device by anonymously detecting your missing devices via Bluetooth. The BLE feature works with all Galaxy mobile hardware running Android 8 or later, smartwatches with Tizen 5.5 or later, the Galaxy Buds Plus, and the Galaxy Buds Live.SmartThings Find in the SmartThings app helps you locate your lost Samsung devices like phones, tablets, earbuds, watches, and more. While UWB is an obvious advantage, it’s not an essential feature for SmartThings Find to work, so don’t worry if you don’t own one of the two devices with the technology. SmartThings Find is available now in the U.S., the U.K., and South Korea,through an update for the SmartThings app. ![]() SmartThings Find gives us a clue as to how a future UWB system from Apple may operate. ![]() Apple has also built UWB into the iPhone 11 series, iPhone 12 series, and even the HomePod Mini through the U1 chip, and is also rumored to be launching its own tracking tags at some point in the future. Samsung talked up the arrival of UWB with the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, but didn’t really offer any specific uses at the time, so it’s great to see it finally in operation. SmartThings Find joins Apple’s Find My Mobile service and Google’s Find My Device, both of which work in similar ways, but without the new UWB-enhanced features. Although not explicitly stated, this is likely refers to the current SmartThings Tracker, which uses an LTE signal to track whatever it’s attached to, or an evolution of that product. Next year, Samsung plans to expand the SmartThings Find service to include support for tracking tags, so it can locate non-Galaxy devices and other items. Location tags for more products next year BLE products give off a signal recognizable by SmartThings Find that comes into action 30 minutes after the device has been offline for 30 minutes, so you don’t have to worry about the device disconnecting itself from a network or controlling device and becoming untraceable. Samsung SmartThings can now monitor your home’s entire energy consumptionĭevices not equipped with UWB but with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) are also easier to find. Samsung SmartThings announces new partnerships for smart energy Samsung and Google partnership finds a shared home for SmartThings ![]()
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