Re: Google's "Find My Debvice Network"

s|b <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 30 May 2024 20:20:14 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:
 

That's been the only available functionality for the past few years, and
I've found it helpful once or twice, it can't actually do any "finding",
it can tell you where the device is (or last was before battery gave up).

 
I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing here. I don't have
the app on my phone, because I can already use 'Find my phone/device'
through a browser. I simply activated it in my settings.

  It's an alternative for the web-browser. In order to find a device,
you need 1) *another* device and 2) an 'app' on that device. The 'app'
is either a general purpose web-browser or the dedicated 'Find My
Device' app.