Android Find My Device is now the Find Hub

So many of us are far more reliant on our devices than we might like to admit, leaning on them to help find our way around town, to find a new restaurant to check out for dinner, or to find tomorrow’s forecast. But what do we do when we can’t find our phones themselves? Android’s Find My Device tool has offered a handy way to let us track down missing hardware, and we just saw Google give it a major feature upgrade with the ability to also find people. As its scope grows beyond devices, Google’s doing the only sensible thing and rebranding Find My Device with a new identity.

As Find My Device is now more and more a hub for finding all manner of important things and people in our lives, Google shares that it will now be known as the Find Hub — how appropriate!

Functionally, that’s not going to mean any changes straight away. The Android Find Hub will be your place for locating Android devices, connected accessories, Bluetooth trackers, and now people, too. Google does share a little bit of news to look forward to in terms of new tracker launches and support going live over the coming months, like Peak Skis brining Bluetooth tracking to its lineup, so you’re not digging through random mountains of powder looking for your lost gear, or Pixbee working on some new Disney-themed tags.

Going forward, though, we can look forward to some tracking updates, and later this year Google plans to expand the Find Hub to support satellite connectivity. We’ve yet to hear all the details about how that’s going to work, so you may want to temper your enthusiasm a smidge, but the idea sounds just chock full of potential, and represents what feels like a truly useful, obvious way to tap into Android’s growing ability to access satellite communication.

The new Find Hub rebranding should start rolling out today, May 13. Google’s got even more Find Hub news for Android users today, sharing word of partnerships with airlines to help find your lost luggage, and UWB support finally arriving.