I was trying to set up an automation in the smart things app and when I selected member location, it comes up with my phone but the name of it uses an old last name of mine that hasn’t been used for years. I can’t find where it’s found that information because every profile I’ve tried looking into, …

if you are using your phone as a presence sensor, you certainly added it in your devices and the first time it uses the name of your iphone (blabla iphone) or android phone (blabla Samsung S9+). If you go to the device list view of the smartthings mobile app, you can edit the name by going to the d…

I understand the name has been used from somewhere on the phone, I just don’t know where as I haven’t used that name for my last 2 phones. Also the phone doesn’t come up under devices for me to change it

Changing my name

Apps & Clients SmartThings (Samsung Connect)

Philippe_Portes (PPO16) July 26, 2019, 8:46pm 4

Have you checked SmartThings created new iPhone presence device (July 3 2019) ?

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Changing my name

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