Google’s Find Hub

Google LLC

About this app

For your devices and items
• View your phone, tablet, headphones, and other accessories on a map–even if they’re offline.
• Play a sound to locate your lost device if it’s nearby.
• If you’ve lost a device, you can remotely secure or erase it. You can also add a custom message to display on the lock screen in case someone finds your device.
• All location data in the Find Hub network is encrypted. This location data is not visible even to Google.

For location sharing
• Share your live location to coordinate a meetup with a friend or check on family to make sure they got home safe.

Ratings and reviews

Compared to the competition, it's lacking. Needs to enable UWB, compass directions, and location history. Also should allow user to drag and rearrange the order of trackers in the list. I had to factory reset my Pixel Buds Pro 2, became location for the buds would not update for a week. They were stuck showing 50 miles away, despite the app recognizing that they were nearby and in the case (case showed as being here at home).

My own experience has largely been good. However I find it very frustrating that this app cannot be installed on a child's device. Children being children, my daughter is far more likely to need to locate a lost item than I am! Google Support are beyond useless in their responses to my enquiries about this, providing only copied & pasted responses suggesting the issue may be my wifi connection, available storage, system update, etc!

I use this app weekly to find either my or someone in my house's phone. You can lock a device remotely, play a loud alarm to find it, see where it is if you have location on, ECT. Very useful. Wish it was snappier as sometimes I'll keep pressing the play sound option and it doesn't seem to go through, just for my husband to tell me to turn off the alarm because it backlogged and now he has turn off 10 alarm notifications for every time I pressed.

What’s new

In addition to finding lost devices and items, you can now stay connected to the people who matter to you. You can share your live location to coordinate a meetup with a friend or check that a family member got home safe—all in one app.