Find My Device on Pixel phones to work even when the phone is off
Find My Device on Pixel phones is taking an innovation turn from the Big G, Google, in a bid to bump up the level of security for most Google Pixel users. While the most recent conjecture on the subject lacks any information on a probable launch date, the fact that developers like Kuba Wojciechowski may uncover evidence of these attempts to improve Find My Device on Pixel capability implies that an announcement is imminent.
The possible launch date of the new Find My Device on Pixel
We wouldn’t be shocked if a preliminary launch occurs during the Google I/O conference in May, followed by a public deployment onboard the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro in the autumn.
While Big G’s long-term objective is surely to establish a “vast network of all Android devices” capable of supporting the upgraded Find My Device on Pixel, the ability to identify an Android phone while it is turned off is likely to be limited to the Pixel 8 family at first.
The feature, dubbed “Pixel Power-off Finder,” will almost certainly require special hardware to keep a phone’s Bluetooth chip permanently enabled, and it’s unclear whether the Pixel 7, 7 Pro, or any other Android devices currently available are equipped with the necessary components to make something like that possible.
Google will very certainly include a “power reserve” option of some kind to the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro, similar to how Apple’s Find My function works, which other Android phone makers will almost certainly “steal.”
The goal is to have a little amount of power accessible at all times so that a mobile device may be tracked even when it is turned off for whatever cause, including a low battery. Of course, no such feature is perfect or limitless, but it remains to be seen what kind of temporal constraints Google will place on the technology when it is finally released.
