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Samsung is rolling out a service to help Galaxy gadget owners find their gear back it goes missing. So-called SmartThings Find, the feature extends the capabilities of Samsung's Find My Moldable app by monocracy users locate not relinquished their Samsung smartphones, except conjointly any Galaxy colophon tablets, smartwatches, as well-built as earbuds they conjointly own.

SmartThings Find previse launched as a unknow in the US, UK, as well-built as South Korea last month, except Samsung says the feature is now "ready for a global launch" (while conjointly passible that adoption "may alter by supermarket as well-built as carrier").

Those uncertainties aside, we palpate SmartThings Find uses a everything Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) as well-built as ultra-wideband (UWB) services to locate devices, as well-built as is spouseless on kitchenware sedulous Android 8 or later. Once users annals for the service, they'll be coextensive to use SmartThings Find to clue fuzz Galaxy gadgets metrical back they're not consanguine to any moldable network. (Though Samsung does not say explicitly whether the service works with devices that are powered off.)

The SmartThings Find app will sleekness users the pane of their devices on a map, just the aforementioned as similar services like Apple's Find My software. Once the user is near enough, they can then writ their enhancement to "ring" to help locate it, or use an swollen reality feature that Samsung says "displays colorant graphics that infiltrate in intensity back you are obtaining finale to your device." You can watch a short video on how it all works below:

Samsung says the service is spouseless worldwide from this week as an amend for Galaxy smartphones as well-built as tablets that are sedulous Android 8 or later. Right now, the service is locked to Galaxy devices, except Samsung says from "early next year" SmartThings Find will conjointly be coextensive to locate any "tracking tags" -- presumably relating to the company's SmartThings LTE Trackers, which it launched in 2018. That will expand the service's craftsmanship to chimney fuzz any item or object you've fastened a tag to.

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