Did you know that Apple’s FindMy didn’t work in South Korea?
Hwang Ho-chan, a regular Apple user, single-handedly pushed Apple to enable the Find My feature in South Korea after 15 years of it being disabled. His persistent 19-month campaign, from protests to petitions, finally paid off with the feature rollout in 2025
The Korea Herald, in a inspiring story about Hwang Ho-chan:
For over 15 years, one of Apple’s most critical device-tracking features, called Find My, was quietly and almost entirely disabled in South Korea. Millions of Korean users owned iPhones, AirPods and AirTags that were, in practice, untrackable if lost or stolen. Unlike billions of users in nearly every other country, they couldn’t locate their devices via GPS or track missing items with AirTags.
Fun story, I wish Apple would acknowledge what happened here. 15 years is a lot and this guy resilience is inspiring.