From: usenet@andyburns.uk   
      
   micky wrote:   
      
   > Andy Burns wrote:   
   >   
   >> unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your privacy point of   
   >> view) it's opt-in, rather than opt-out like apple devices.   
   >   
   > Which means?  I have to sign up for this?   But I didn't afaik and it   
   > worked.  And for my two friends who afaik never signed up.   
      
   Presumably your phone is/was connected to your home wifi when it   
   reported its location?   
      
   The wider "Find Hub" functionality (unhelpfully it's been renamed a   
   couple of times) relies on the missing device sending out background   
   location beacons, which someone else's phone can receive if they're   
   nearby, then their phone reports over mobile data to google where it was   
   located when it saw your phone, hence your missing device is assumed to   
   be nearby the reporting phone.   
      
   >> Certain devices can send bluetooth location packets when they're "off".   
   >   
   > Interesting.  Sort of like pigeons, maybe.   
      
   When away from home it relies on other people's phones co-operating to   
   find your missing phone.   
      
   I know newer Pixels (mine included) have this special ability to prepare   
   the beacon data and send it even after normal power off   
      
   I think the chipset has an additional low-power processor that stays   
   active when the rest of the phone is off, and can repeatedly send out   
   the beacons, maybe even when the battery is considered "empty".   
      
   I suspect the settings for this will vary between google, samsung etc   
   phones.   
      
   on mine, there's a couple of places to look for settings   
      
   First within Settings > Security & Privacy > Device Finders > Find Hub =   
   on/off   
      
   Second, within the Find Hub app > This Device > Settings > Find Your   
   Offline Devices   
      
   you should have four options   
     - Off   
     - Without network   
     - With network in busy places only   
     - With network everywhere   
      
   These settings are probably so far buried that most people don't know   
   they even exist ... and at various times google has remotely changed   
   that setting.   
      
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