Android’s Find My Device network might be crowd-sourced

Apple’s Find My network is one of its most efficient services. This is what Apple uses to find lost devices including Macbooks, iPhones, iPods, etc. This is also the tech Apple uses for its recently launched Bluetooth trackers AirTags. Samsung too has its SmartTags that uses a crowd-sourced network of devices as Apple does. Now, as an APK teardown suggests, Google is working on a similar crowd-sourced network to locate lost objects, as GSMArena reports.

The APK teardown has revealed a hidden code found in the latest version of the Google Play Services 21.24.13 in the beta channel. There are two parts to this hidden code, the first says “Allow your phone to help located your and other people’s devices” and the second says “Find My Device network”.