Findmy Tracker

The problem

Apple provides no public API for programmatically accessing Find My location data. Developers cannot easily track their own AirTags or devices for custom dashboards or automation without manual app interaction.

What it does

• Automates the Find My app via AppleScript to switch between Items and Devices tabs.
• Captures high-resolution window screenshots for visual data extraction.
• Identifies device locations, addresses, and timestamps from map metadata.
• Supports time-series sampling to build route logs or arrival checks.
• Generates structured JSON or CSV logs from raw visual information.

Frameworks & tools

macOS, AppleScript, System Events UI scripting, screencapture CLI, and vision-capable LLMs.

Why this beats prompting it yourself

This skill handles the fragile timing of UI automation, ensuring the app settles before capture. It includes specific logic for maintaining the active panel focus required for AirTag updates, which a standard prompt would likely miss.

Use cases

• Logging the location history of an AirTag-equipped asset over several hours.
• Verifying if a specific device is at a pre-defined geofenced address.
• Automating periodic snapshots of personal device locations for local route mapping.

Known limitations

Requires macOS with Screen Recording permissions granted to the terminal. Tracking frequency is limited by the Find My app refresh rate, typically every 30 to 300 seconds.