Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Google recently rolled out an update for Find My Device.
- The updated version introduces the ability to track devices with supervised/family accounts.
- You may not be able to mark supervised/family devices as lost.
Google has rolled out an update for the Find My Device app introducing a new feature. This new feature allows users to track devices with supervised/family accounts.
An APK teardown can provide insight into potential upcoming features for a service based on work-in-progress code. However, not all predicted features may end up in a public release.
While the Find My Device app can track your devices, it does not currently support tracking supervised/family devices. The location of these devices can only be viewed through the Family Link app, which lacks some of the advanced features of Find My Device.
Google has added this ability to the Find My Device app in version 3.1.078-1. Here are a few related lines of code:
Code
<string name="adm_device_picker_family_devices_tab">Family devices</string>
<string name="adm_device_picker_user_devices_tab">My devices</string>
You can view images of the old version of the app (left) and the new version (right) below.
With the new feature, you can now track supervised/family devices using Find My Device and separate them from your own devices.
The feature is enabled by default, with no need to activate a flag. However, in our tests, we found that you may not be able to mark supervised/family devices as lost. This limitation may change in the future as Google continues to improve the service based on user feedback.