Google discovered my device network for Android, starting slowly to say, but is continuously improving. Now, we have finally found some numbers to backup those reforms, as Google has confirmed that Find My device is 4x fast in finding network items, and that “more” users are changing default privacy settings.
When finding my device network for Android, it was launched earlier, it was immediately clear that it could not compare Apple or Samsung options in terms of speed on which trackers are found. A user sent an Airtag and a pebbi tracker via mail, only the Android tracker never found at its last destination.
As we first noted in January this year, however, Google is improving. The speed of tracking is quite rapidly, with a moto tag we tested which is often identified and updated in an app faster than an airtag. It is still inconsistent and there are many other issues, but things are moving in the right direction.
Google has since confirmed that yes, things are getting better. Talk to Ruckus Google says that my device for Android is 4X faster than the network found finding launch. It is particularly referring to the items found and updated found within the FMD app, at least in the internal test of Google.
Improvements clearly come from “continuous algorithm and technical under-hood improvement”. Google specified that these reforms include changing the frequency and duration of Bluetooth scanning, making it easier for equipment and trackers to talk to each other. Google also adds that “more” users are away from the default. Search my device privacy settings, allowing the network to work in “all areas” instead of “high-trafficking” locations only. Google started showing in-app notices to users in the last year about how to change this setting, but “high-traffic” is still a default setting.
Google also mentioned that more information about UWB support is coming “very soon”, although it is not clear whether it is actually about rolling out, or if Google is only preparing to announce further. Around the corner with Google I/O, it sounds like a right time. The Moto Tag remains the only FMD tracker with UWB hardware.
From that post Ruckus Find Mai device against Apple and Tile Network goes to dive into a test of My device network, and ends with this conclusion that “it is very inconsistent that Google’s Find My device network is still not as good as Finding Strape Finding on Find My Find My on Find My,”, see that the network is decided to make the network more private and less functional. – There is something that discusses last year.
