- Google Pixel Fetaure Drop adds people to find my device
- You can share your location with your friends and family
- It will appear as a separate tab to your devices
As part of the March – March – Google Pixel Phones (in particular the Google Pixel 9) Pixel Pixel Functionality Function. But one in particular has occupied my thoughts because I don’t know if I like it or I hate it: find the follow -up of the new people on my device.
Finding my device is the Android version of Apple Find My Network. It brings together all your connected Bluetooth devices and the Android products in which you have signed and gives you an easy way to quickly locate these gadgets, using directions to their last location or by playing a chime so that you can hear where they are lost.
It’s all up to the course, but the new tool also allows you to track down people. Well, this allows friends and family to track you specifically via the New People tab (which is currently in beta version) if you choose to share your location with them. It works about the same way as Google Maps, only now you can also see people in finding my device.
On the one hand, it’s super useful. Being able to quickly share my position with people will be excellent when you try to organize, say, a meeting because I can direct them all to my precise location by pressing a button instead of sending waves. Alternatively, after an evening, I can share my position with my friends and family so that they can see that I went home safely.
Is it sure?
At the same time, all these follow -up applications (of which to find my Google device are only those, there are also Life360, Glympse and Google Maps to name any more) how easy it is for us to find news by our phones, and certainly make me think twice on the threat of digital hunt – in particular with news like Apple Find Mos’s recently discovered.
Fortunately, there are digital protections in place with all these services, the main thing being that you must manually send your location to the people you choose. Find that my device will also alert you when the follow -up is activated (just like many other services), so you remember that your location is not private – which means that you can deactivate it or keep it active if you always want to share where you are.
And if you fear being followed by tags that you have not authorized, Android Tech can automatically alert you to the presence of unknown trackers and help you find them – it can even make certain compatible trackers play a ringtone to make it even easier to locate them.
Overall, then, the new feature of the people of Find My Device probably approaches on the useful side of the equation that the frightening equation. If you want to know more about the recent drop in features, here is my choices for the best seven tools that Google has just added to the phone and Pixel watches.
