Apple Announces 'Find My' For South Korea

Apple announced it is planning to bring its Find My service to South Korea in early 2025. Originally released in 2010, the Find My service has been unavailable in South Korea, making it the last country without access to Apple's tracking feature. AppleInsider reports: In July 2024, complaints from users in South Korea reached a point where they were finally petitioning the government to allow Apple's Find My feature to work. Any iPhone made for sale in South Korea had Find My permanently disabled, so it wouldn't work even when the owner was in a different country. Now in a statement on its Korean website, Apple has announced that it plans to bring Find My to the country shortly.

'Apple plans to introduce the 'Find My' network in Korea in the spring of 2025,' says a brief statement (in translation). 'Users in Korea will soon be able to use the Find My app to find their Apple devices and personal belongings with their personal information protected, and check the location of friends and family.' According to the user petition submitted to the National Assembly Petition website of South Korea, Apple has said that Find My is disabled 'because of internal policy.'

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