Find My

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Find My, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 12 complaints

Separate confusing alerts for devices and tags; trust button fails with 'content unavailable'2025-10-20
Repair mode is hidden behind an obscure swipe action and confusing deletion steps2025-09-28
Location tracking doesn't work in South Korea, so the user can't locate lost AirPods2024-08-24
Opt-out page doesn't clearly show whether user is opted out2024-05-09
Users aren't warned that skipping Find My leaves the Mac open to takeover2023-10-13
Turning off the extra scanning requires digging through menus and scary warnings2022-06-07
Users didn't realise the feature was off, as its only hint was buried in settings2021-10-02
Turning off the feature takes four nested Settings levels with misleading names and confirmation2021-10-01
Hard to find the toggle to turn the feature off; the name is confusing2021-09-30
The setting to turn off collaborative tracking is buried and poorly explained2021-05-11
Finding a device now requires going to iCloud.com in a browser, not an app2019-10-26
Location shows stale or 'cannot locate' repeatedly instead of streaming live position2016-12-06