Google's Find My Device for Android could soon match Apple's Find My app - PhoneArena

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In June 2021, a study said that

Google was looking to rise the capabilities of its Find My Device feature bringing it to the aforesaid level arsenic Apple's Find My network. The second tin way mislaid oregon stolen iPhone units, iPad tablets, Macs, and AirTag trackers adjacent if they are retired of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth range. Heck, the Find My web volition find these devices adjacent if they are turned off!

Soon, Android devices worldwide mightiness signifier a web to assistance find mislaid oregon stolen Android oregon Wear OS devices

Google's Find My Device lone tracks phones that person been signed successful to your Google account. The level besides can't assistance others find their mislaid oregon stolen devices. However, Google's enactment to grow the capabilities of its Find My Device diagnostic continues.

Google's merchandise notes for the December 2022 Play Store update (via

Android Police) see the pursuing mention: "Find My Device present supports encrypted last-known-location reports for Android devices, utilizing a caller privacy-centric framework."

Google's enactment leafage reveals that the Find My Device diagnostic could soon beryllium upgraded

This could bespeak that

Google is moving to let Find My Device to way Android devices that person been mislaid oregon stolen adjacent sans an net connection. With an updated Find My Device network, the determination services from different Android devices could assistance find different Android users' missing handsets. Since the accusation would beryllium encrypted, lone the proprietor of the "discovered" instrumentality would cognize wherever it is located. This web could besides beryllium utilized to assistance find missing oregon purloined Wear OS devices.

With implicit 3 cardinal Android devices floating astir worldwide, a Find My Device web could screen plentifulness of ground. If this sounds familiar, this is however Apple's Find My web works, Apple itself says, "The Find My web is an encrypted anonymous web of hundreds of millions of Apple devices that tin assistance you find your instrumentality oregon item." It's Apple's ample fig of progressive devices and the encryption that makes the Find My web work.

There has been nary authoritative announcement astir upgrading Find My Device and we person nary thought erstwhile the diagnostic volition beryllium launched. This would beryllium a large woody for Android users and should merit immoderate benignant of announcement from the company.

App Archiving volition present automatically archive definite apps erstwhile an Android phone's retention is low

The December Play Store update besides adds enactment allowing Android users successful immoderate states to enactment a integer transcript of their drivers' licenses successful their Google Wallets. Additionally, successful precocious November Google started rolling retired app archiving for Android phones. This diagnostic allows users to uninstall an app to escaped up abstraction connected their phones but inactive allows the app information to beryllium stored connected these devices. As a result, erstwhile the app is reinstalled, users volition person the aforesaid nonstop acquisition with it that they had earlier uninstalling it.

And this month's update takes that diagnostic and runs with it. Now, if a telephone has a debased magnitude of retention space, it automatically volition archive definite apps. This is bully quality for those with fund Android handsets sporting a constricted magnitude of autochthonal storage. This diagnostic appears connected v33.5 of the Google Play Store which was pushed retired this past Monday.

To spot which mentation of Google's Android app storefront your telephone is running, unfastened up the Play Store app and pat connected the illustration representation connected the close broadside of the hunt barroom astatine the apical of the screen. From the paper you are taken to, property Settings > About and you'll spot the Play Store mentation adjacent the bottommost of the screen. You'll besides spot a greenish nexus that says "Update Play Store." Tap connected it and the Play Store volition beryllium updated, oregon you'll spot a connection that says your telephone already has the latest mentation of the software.

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