{"id":7197,"date":"2021-06-21T10:57:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T14:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7197"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:50:10","slug":"google-may-be-adding-a-find-my-phone-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/google-may-be-adding-a-find-my-phone-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Google May Be Adding A Find My Phone Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google is working to design Android phones, so they can find lost devices, much like Apple&#8217;s Find My network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A switch for the feature popped up in a beta of the Google Play Services, with code pointing to the ability of phones to find other devices, including Android phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Google&#8217;s support page, the current Find My Device system can only find phones that are turned on, have a data or Wi-Fi signal, and have location services enabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It remains unclear which of these restrictions would eliminate the relay network function, called Spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google has other projects that use a network of Android phones &#8211; in particular, its earthquake detection, which follows exactly the same concept.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/6\/18\/22540625\/google-find-my-device-android-spot-location-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in The Verge.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is working to design Android phones, so they can find lost devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[202,40],"class_list":["post-7197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-apple","tag-google"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7239,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions\/7239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}