- Evidence of sharing the location by satellite in Find Hub are identified
- Google had previously promised that the functionality was on the way
- It seems that you can share your location via pings every 15 minutes
Google’s Hub Find Find is the place to go to know where your devices and friends and family have arrived, and there is a large upgrade on the way in the form of a satellite location, for the moments when you do not have a Wi-Fi or cellular connection.
We already knew that this feature was incoming, but the Android team Authority has now seen evidence in the latest version of the Find Hub application for Android. This suggests that we are about to see the features be online, although it is not yet.
Recently renamed from finding my device, then finding my, the Find hub will now be even more useful: if you should be unhappy enough to get in trouble far from public coverage and network coverage, other people will always be able to find you.
As always, you will have a total control over which is able to see your location from inside the application, so it is only for these contacts with confidence. You can see with whom you share your location and modify these settings at any time, either via the Find Hub application, or via Google Maps.
Location pine
Based on the hidden chains found in the Find Hub code, it seems that the sharing of the satellite location is not continuous. Instead, you will be able to scath your contacts with a location every 15 minutes, up to a certain limit that is not yet clear – a bit like dropping a pin in an application like Whatsapp.
According to the evidence here, it seems that sharing is manual rather than continuous and in the background (as it is usually). You will be kept informed of the number of pings of places you have over a certain period.
There are still a lot of things that we do not know, like the Android devices with which it will be compatible with, and if it will use it or not, but it is certainly another step in the right direction to stay safe while you are booming.
Note that this will not replace the Emergency SOS function already available on selected Android phones, which allows you to contact the emergency services via a satellite connection if you have trouble, and which also includes a location sharing item.
