After introducing the security measure in 2024, the Find Hub app (previously Find My Device) no longer requires biometric confirmation.
Find Hub no longer asks for your fingerprint or PIN before opening to the Devices or People lists.
The change rolled out in the past few hours and was still in place when we last checked this morning. It’s a server-side rollout, with the most recent Play Store update in February.
Biometric login should at least be an option for Find Hub, like how Google Authenticator offers a “Privacy screen.” That said, location sharing in Google Maps has no such protections. Find My on iOS also opens immediately without additional confirmation.
Fingerprint unlock in Find Hub could be annoying if you’re actively using it to navigate to another person and have to authenticate twice.
In other developments, Google quietly added this line to the “What’s new” section of the Play Store listing with the last update: “We’ve resolved an issue where Precision Finding wasn’t working correctly on certain Android devices.”
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