It’s also not like this should have been all that complicated to bake into the Siri Remote. There was no mention of it at all, and when the specs page for the new Apple TV went up, there was no indication that the new Siri Remote would have anything like a U1 chip. We can’t think of a more perfect setup for Apple to announce that the new Apple TV remote would also support Find My, and yet… nothing. However, once the protagonist of the story dived into his couch, a wealth of lost remotes could be seen right in the midst of the wasteland of stuff. In fact, Apple used the all-too-common scenario of finding something buried in the couch cushions during the AirTag segment of its event last week, except in this case it was talking about lost keys rather than a lost remote. While a Bluetooth LE style object locator would be pointless for something like a remote control - you generally always know it’s somewhere in your house - the new U1-powered Find My network seems like it was made exactly for this purpose. It was an even more inexplicable omission when you consider that Apple was supposedly already working on it as far back as last fall. With so much buzz around Apple’s new Find My network, not to mention its own long-awaited AirTags that will finally be arriving in stores (and in our hands) today, it felt like a colossal omission when the completely redesigned Siri Remote on the new Apple TV 4K didn’t get invited to the party.
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