Google’s “Find My Device” network, or “Find My Device” in Spanish, allows us to track devices such as our Android smartphones, a useful tool with which locate a lost cell phone. A month ago it was updated to work even offline and we were able to test it.
Now it not only brings together cell phones registered with our Google account but also NFC and GPS tags as different alternatives to Apple AirTags. And among these trackers
Google and Apple together for the same goal
Now, with the renewed “Find My Device” network, Google is on par with Apple and its “Search” tool, having a utility that allows users to locate devices such as mobile phones, tablets and any object when we use a tracking label.
These little trackers are very useful for locating any valuable object, but they generate unwanted side effects: they can follow us at any time. For this reason, Google and Apple worked together to create a specification: the detection of unwanted location trackers
Thus, the root is eradicated inappropriate use of these devices They were originally designed to keep track of our belongings. This new feature has started rolling out to devices running Android 6.0 and above, as Apple also did in its recent update to iOS 17.5.
Thus, we will receive a notification of “Tracker traveling with you» (“tracker traveling with you”, translated from English) when a Bluetooth tracking device is detected traveling with us. That is, if a user receives this alert, it will mean that another person’s AirTag or any other tracking tag if you use it to spy
The function includes checking the tracker’s ID, making it make a sound to make it easier to locate, as well as accessing the instructions to disable it. In addition to the Google-Apple alliance, other players in the sector have committed: Chipolo, eufy, Jio, Motorola and Pebblebee ensure that their labels will be compatible.
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