I hope it’s better than Samsung’s implementation. Their trackers are absolutely useless if they’re too far away from your phone.
I’ve had good fortune with mine whilst travelling around Asia and Australia, will be testing it soon in Europe. Perhaps there’s not as many Samsung users where you are?
Well I live in the 5th largest city in my country but everything in the US is spread so far apart that even if every person in my neighborhood used a Samsung phone, they’d probably still be too far away from my trackers for them to actually work.
I wish I had known they had such a short range before I bought them, but they’re still useful for finding things that I often lose in the house (like my keys, wallet, and cannabis vape). So there’s that.
Well since they’re constant by tracking every device at all times and all the other devices and networks as well, might as well put that to good use.
Find My Device is completely useless until the device is unlocked. As long as it is rebooted and not unlocked, there is no way to detect its location. Since most phones (if not all), use an encrypted filesystem. With such, no service can’t start if the device isn’t initially unlocked after reboot, including Find my device.
This isn’t only a issue with Google’s implementation, it’s the same with other implementations to.
Pretty sure this isn’t true. Afaik, you can exclude files from encryption on Android. This is also why you see your custom wallpaper before unlocking the phone.
As far as I’m aware find my on iPhone can work even when the phone is off, this is because the phone kinda acts like an airtags where enough information can be exchanged securely.
Since most phones (if not all), use an encrypted filesystem. With such, no service can’t start if the device isn’t initially unlocked after reboot, including Find my device.
Android developers can specify that their apps need to run before the pin is entered, via direct boot mode. This is how alarms still work, even if your phone takes an upgrade overnight, and restarts automatically as part of that process.
I can’t say whether Google’s Find My Device currently does this, but there is no technical reason it can’t.
even if your phone takes an upgrade overnight
As far as I remember updates don’t reboot to bfu, but I get what you’re saying
