Google Find Hub is catching up to Apple Find My with left-behind alerts
TL;DR Google has started rolling out “Notify when left behind” alerts for trackers in the Find Hub app on Android. The alerts currently work with item trackers but not with devices like headphones. By default, the feature skips notifications at the Home address saved in your Google Account. For the longest time, Google’s Find Hub suffered from a really obvious oversight that competitors like Apple’s Find My did not…
TL;DR Google has started rolling out “Notify when left behind” alerts for trackers in the Find Hub app on Android. The alerts currently work with item trackers but not with devices like headphones. By default, the feature skips notifications at the Home address saved in your Google Account. For the longest time, Google’s Find Hub suffered from a really obvious oversight that competitors like Apple’s Find My did not: missing support for Left-Behind reminders. This missing feature would have definitely held back the Pixel Tag when it went on sale on November 11. Fortunately, Google has some good news. Google has started rolling out support for “Notify when left behind” alerts for tags and trackers in the Find Hub app on Android, as first spotted by 9to5Google . We’ve previously spotted this feature in development , and it was also included in October’s Play Services update changelog. So its rollout isn’t surprising. However, it is a welcome addition to Find Hub’s capabilities.