If you have an Android phone or tablet, Google will email you soon - if it hasn’t already - to say your device will automatically beam its location anonymously to strangers’ compatible gadgets nearby.

A few weeks ago, I received two new tracking devices from a popular brand to try out with Google’s new Android Find My Device network. I activated and synchronized both pieces – a keychain tag and a ...

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The Find My Device app on Android may soon be getting a big upgrade, as it prepares support for biometric unlock. For a long time, the point of the Find My Device app on Android was solely to locate ...

Android’s Find My Device app manages signed-in Android devices and will soon become the hub for tracking Android trackers, too. Users currently need to sign in to the app with their account password ...

Code within the Find My Device app suggests that Google is working on adding support for UWB tech to the network. We’ve also found code referencing AR actions, which speculatively ties in nicely with ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Android users can help improve Google's "Find My Device" network with a simple setting change.