Apple has announced a redesigned Find My experience for watchOS 27, bringing several previously separate Apple Watch tracking tools into one app.
Before this update, Apple Watch handled location-related features through three separate apps: Find Devices, Find People, and Find Items. Each one focused on a different part of Apple’s tracking system, whether that meant locating a device, checking a contact’s shared location, or finding an item tied to Apple’s network.
With watchOS 27, Apple is folding those functions into a single rebuilt Find My app. The goal is pretty straightforward: make it easier for users to find devices, belongings, and friends without bouncing between multiple apps on the watch.
Apple says the new app uses a map-based interface as its main navigation style. That should make the experience feel closer to the broader Find My system people already know from iPhone, while still fitting the smaller Apple Watch screen.
The updated app also lets users manage location-sharing permissions directly inside the new experience. That includes controls for sharing a person’s location as well as settings related to item tracking information.
For Apple Watch users, this is less about adding an entirely new tracking feature and more about cleaning up how those features are organized. Instead of remembering whether something belongs in Find Devices, Find People, or Find Items, users will be able to start from one Find My app and move from there.
The change was shared as part of Apple’s WWDC26 software announcements, where the company has been tightening up several system apps and making more of its platform features feel consistent across devices.
