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>Locate your compatible Android phone and tablet by ringing them or viewing their location on a map in the app — even when they’re offline. And thanks to specialized Pixel hardware, Pixel 8 and 8 Pro owners will also be able to find their devices if they’re powered off or the battery is dead. Then they are not really offline or off are they? Bring back removable batteries in the phones.
> thanks to specialized Pixel hardware, Pixel 8 and 8 Pro owners will also be able to find their devices if they’re powered off or the battery is dead. This suggests there is separate hardware with its own power and network capabilities, designed for location tracking, designed to be always on. Is there a way to disable it?
Does this have any implications for "Airplane mode". Or the requirement to turn off your cell phone during takeoff.
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> your phone doesn't have internet access > simply based on a BLE ping What if they disable Bluetooth? The linked open source find my device app uses cell network to both receive commands and for location.
On Apple's devices, you cannot disable that BLE broadcast. The same is true on the Pixel 8: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/8/24123909/google-pixel-8-pr... . That's the whole point of this design, and fundamentally different than just having some app ping a server once in a while so long as it has network access.
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On Apple's devices, you cannot disable that BLE broadcast. The same is true on the Pixel 8: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/8/24123909/google-pixel-8-pr... . That's the whole point of this design, and fundamentally different than just having some app ping a server once in a while so long as it has network access.
Even if you turn on airplane mode on the device?
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I was considering a Pixel 8a when it's released, now I'm not so sure. Not really keen on a mobile botnet.
IMHO if you cary around anything that contains a cellular modem you're fair game anyways.
Does anyone know of a good way to have an Android phone ring from another Android phone, without sharing all account access ? My wife keeps her phone on silent but loses it multiple times a day. We use the computer to make it ring using Find my Device, but it'd be a lot easier if I could just do it from my phone, which I can if I install the app and then add her Google account to the accounts on my phone, but then I…
And use Tailscale to create a secure network
Does anyone know of a good way to have an Android phone ring from another Android phone, without sharing all account access ? My wife keeps her phone on silent but loses it multiple times a day. We use the computer to make it ring using Find my Device, but it'd be a lot easier if I could just do it from my phone, which I can if I install the app and then add her Google account to the accounts on my phone, but then I…