Heyo everyone. Been doing a bit of an investigation into phone tracking solutions and I've hit a metaphorical wall with samsung.
As a lot of you probably know, offline finding turns your device into a smart tag. Allowing other samsung devices to locate it. You might not know on the official website explaining this feature, it claims to work "even when it's turned off" meaning the device is shut down. This one sentence potentially means all offline finding supported devices can be located when shut down.
Iphones from around the iPhone 11 have this.
Google pixel devices have this.
A tiny part of explaining offline finding mentions this, but nothing else talks of it.
The only mention of this feature is one line on the samsung website. I couldn't find anyone testing it or anything to say which devices support being located when powered off. I'd try it myself but having my phone shut down for hours would be problematic.
I really hope this feature is real and works, else samsung will be lagging behind the competition.
If anyone has a modern S series (the newer the better) and wants to give it a try. Make sure offline finding is on, power off the device. Go somewhere, see if the find app or smart things find can locate your device (using probably a second phone). It might take a while to get a ping so maybe take it to work? Hopefully after a few hours it shows up as being found by a nearby device, then we know it works.
Finding when shut down should be a standard feature. If apple and google can do it, samsung with their own find network should be able to.
