This movie is a standalone sequel to Searching (2018), which starred John Cho. This movie starts with docudrama footage based on the events of the previous film.
(at around 1h 40 mins) The Netflix chapter showed at the end of the film has the reference number 80198496. If you put this in Netflix, it is linked to the film Fatal Affair (2020), starred by Nia Long (Grace).
The film takes place in June of 2022.
This movie was first screened at Regal Cinemas as a Monday Mystery Movie on January 9, 2023, 11 days before the official release.
(at around 29 mins) In one of the first shots of Kevin's Google account, you can see that Kevin has 420.69 GB left of storage in his Google Drive.