- Google Pixel Fetaure Drop add people tracking to find my device
- You can share your location with friends and family
- It will appear as a separate tab for its devices
As part of the Marches’s functions function, and Android update, Google Pixel phones (particularly the Google Pixel 9) received a handful of new tools. But one in particular has occupied my thoughts because I am not sure if I love or hate: find the monitoring of the new people of my device.
Find my device is the Android version of the Apple’s Find My Network network. It meets all its connected Bluetooth devices and the Android products in which you have signed and gives you an easy way to quickly locate these devices, using instructions for your last location or making them play a bell so you can listen to where they are lost.
That is all for the course, but the new tool also allows you to hunt people. Well, it allows friends and family to hunt it specifically through the New People tab (which is currently in beta) if you choose to share your location with them. This works in the same way as Google Maps, only now you can also see people to find my device.
On the one hand, this is super useful. Being able to quickly share my location with people will be excellent when I try to organize, for example, a meeting, since I can direct them to my precise location when pressing a button instead of sending vague addresses. Alternatively, after one night, I can share my location with friends and family so that they can see that I arrived home safely.
Is it safe?
At the same time, all these monitoring applications (of which they find that my Google device is only one, there are also Life360, Glympse and Google Maps, to name a few more) make it clear how easy it is for us the phones, and certainly makes me think twice about the threat of digital harassment, especially with the news as the recently discovered news.
Fortunately, there are digital protections with all these services, with the main one who must manually send their location to the people you choose. Find that my device will also alert it when the tracking is enabled (like many other services) to be reminded that its location is not private, which means that it can turn it off or keep it active if you still want to share where you are.
And if you are worried about the labels that you have not authorized, Android Tech can automatically alert it about the presence of unknown trackers and help you find them, you can even make some compatible trackers reproduce a call tone to make it even easier to locate them.
In general, then, the new Find My Device feature is probably approaching to the useful side of the equation that the spooky. If you want to obtain more information about the recent fall of functions, here are my choices for the seven best tools that Google has just added to Pixel Telephone and Watches.
