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Amid the launch of the network and trackers, the Find My Device app has surpassed 500 million downloads on the Google Play Store.
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Google released the app on Dec 11, 2013. For years, the app’s design remained the same with a green and white color palette. At the start of 2023, Google finally gave it a Material You redesign (and dark theme) that dropped the map-based UI with a device carousel up top.
You’re now greeted with a simple list of devices, with google.com/android/find also updated to match. For a time, Google would let you search “find my phone” and get the same functionality. That was removed a few years back, with the Find My Device app or website now required.
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In addition to seeing the location and status — battery and network — of Android phones, tablets, Wear OS watches, Fast Pair headphones, and now trackers on a map, the app lets you play a noise, lock, add a custom message, and erase devices signed into your Google Account.
The layout is straightforward enough, though I wish Google would address the missing device icon issue already. In place of a live image (from the Google Play Console), you get a generic phone.
Towards the end of 2023, Google finally updated the logo. The green/white made away for a four-color icon inspired by radar.
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You don’t actually use “Find Device” — which is the app name in launchers — to set-up the FMD network or trackers. All that is handled by Google Play services and the Fast Pair sheet that slides up.
More on Find My Device:
- Google defends Find My Device ‘aggregation by default’ as ‘key’ privacy difference
- Pebblebee trackers for Android initial review: The best option, for now, is still held back
- Chipolo One Point and Card Point initial review: Basic tracking and not much else [Video]
- The Moto Tag is the first UWB tracker to join Google’s Find My Device network
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