In the taxi, on the train or in the pub: these are typical places where people forget their smartphone. A little too much to drink, a slippery seat, dark, these are all reasons that make you lose sight of your smartphone even more quickly. There was already a Find my device option for your smartphone, but that will now be even better.
iPhone users already know it: the option to find gadgets thanks to someone else’s iPhone. People you don’t know can enable their iPhone to be on a network that can track lost gadgets. This is certainly important now that more and more trackers are coming onto the market that can ensure that people are easily followed home. The tracker simply travels with them. Because Google is now also launching a ‘Find My Device’ network for Android phones, these kinds of creepy stalking problems should also be solved sooner. Androids are strong together.
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But even if nothing serious is going on, but you just want to know whether you brought your earbuds home or left them at the office, you can use this kind of technology to find them faster. This was previously possible, but due to the improved network of Android phones and the expansion of options, it is now even easier to find out specifically where something is located. The network for Androids is now live only in North America, but it promises to come to the rest of the world as well. It works via Bluetooth: that technology is used to detect encrypted location data from nearby devices. The more devices there are in the area, the more specifically it can be determined where the device is located: they are really in a network around it.
By the way, it’s late, this network. Not only compared to Apple’s, which has been around for many years, but also because Google had already announced this last year. However, this has not been achieved before by… Apple. Google had to wait due to a blockade from Apple. Apple has now lifted that blockade and released an update that allows iPhones to also detect trackers that are not AirTags. Ultimately, the world can become a bit safer: trackers are intercepted sooner and lost gadgets can be found sooner. Whether in the hands of thieves, or simply behind the bar in the lost and found bin.
