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Query Apple's FindMy network with Python

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378 points nkko | 1 comments | 21 Dec 24 12:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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pixelmonkey ◴[21 Dec 24 15:17 UTC] No.42480134[source]▶
This looks great. If this Python implementation of the FindMy API actually works, it would be a major technology quality-of-life improvement for me. I hope Apple lets it stay alive.

Everyone who shares location with me does so over Find My, and my family insists on using AirTags. As a 100% desktop Linux and mobile Android user, it is one of the few things that I always need to remote in to my Mac Mini to access because there are no x-platform FindMy apps and the FindMy iCloud web app does not have feature parity to the macOS and iOS apps. One of a long list of offenses where Apple refuses to make things easy for x-platform friend groups and families. Very annoying.

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fluidcruft ◴[21 Dec 24 17:09 UTC] No.42480805[source]▶
One that really annoys me is inability to monitor/control my kid's device useage and time limits.
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amit9gupta ◴[21 Dec 24 18:21 UTC] No.42481243[source]▶
Possible in the apple ecosystem. If the kids are part of a "familly", you can monitor / control using Parental Controls accessed from your iPhone > Settings > Screen Time.

Also checkout firewalla https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360008214094-Ac...

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1. fluidcruft ◴[21 Dec 24 18:53 UTC] No.42481436[source]▶
I actually have Firewalla (it's great!). But it's only helpful when a kid's phone is connected to the network itself (which they can escape easily by disconnecting from wifi). The native stuff works on all networks.