What is Google Find Hub?
The short answer
Google Find Hub, formerly called Find My Device, is Google’s service for locating Android phones and tablets, compatible earbuds and Bluetooth tracker tags. Nearby items can be rung or located directly. Further away, the Find Hub network uses other Android devices to detect an item’s Bluetooth signal and report an encrypted, approximate location that only the owner can see.
From Find My Device to Find Hub
For years, Android’s lost-phone tool was called Find My Device. In 2025 Google renamed it Find Hub as it grew from finding phones into a place for tracker tags, earbuds and sharing your location with family and friends. Older articles, settings menus and packaging may still use the previous name, but it is the same service.
What Find Hub can do
- Locate your Android devices on a map, play a sound, secure them or erase them remotely.
- Find compatible tracker tags, including tags from partners such as Chipolo, Pebblebee and Motorola, attached to keys, bags, bikes and luggage.
- Find compatible earbuds and other accessories.
- Share location with trusted family members or friends, if you choose to.
- Work from a browser through the Find Hub website, handy when your phone is the thing you have lost.
How the Find Hub network works
The Find Hub network is crowdsourced. When a lost item is out of range of your own phone, other Android devices with the network turned on can detect its Bluetooth signal and securely send its location to the network. Google says these locations are end-to-end encrypted, so nobody can see your item’s location unless you share it. The principle is the same as Apple’s Find My network; our comparison of the two sets out the differences.
Android lets you choose how your own phone takes part. Google’s help pages describe options that range from not participating at all, to storing encrypted locations without the network, to helping only in busy places, to helping everywhere. On some recent phones, the network can locate the phone for several hours after it has been turned off, provided the right settings were on.
Find Hub in practice
| Situation | What you can usually do |
|---|---|
| Tag on keys, somewhere at home | Play a sound, or use proximity hints in the app |
| Tag with UWB, on a supported phone | See distance and direction as you get closer |
| Bag left on a bus | Check the map for an approximate location reported by the network |
| Phone lost, no second device | Sign in to the Find Hub website from any browser |
Getting ready before anything goes missing
Find Hub is most useful if a few things are in place before you need it. None of these take long:
- Check you are signed in to a Google Account on your phone. Find Hub is normally switched on automatically once an account is added.
- Look at the network setting under your phone’s Find Hub options and choose how you want your device to take part.
- Add tags and earbuds when prompted. Compatible trackers are added to Find Hub as part of pairing.
- Remember the website. If your phone itself goes missing, you can sign in to Find Hub from another device’s browser.
Safety features
Android includes unknown tracker alerts. If someone else’s Bluetooth tag, including an Apple AirTag or a Find Hub-compatible tag, appears to be travelling with you, your phone can warn you. You can also run a manual scan from your phone’s safety settings. Google notes that turning off Bluetooth or switching to aeroplane mode on your own phone does not stop a nearby tracker from sharing its location.
Limitations
- It is for Android. Find Hub is built around Android devices and a Google Account. iPhone users rely on Apple’s own network.
- Locations are approximate. Reports depend on compatible devices passing near the item.
- Only compatible tags work. A tracker must be designed for the Find Hub network. Check the official listing, not just the product photo.
- Settings and features vary by Android version, device maker and region.
Sources
- What is Find Hub and how to use it · Google (Android)
- Be ready to find a lost Android device · Google Android Help
- Tracking lost items using tags and Find Hub · Google (Android)
- Find unknown trackers · Google Android Help
Written and reviewed by Tagsy Editorial. General guidance only; always check official advice for your situation.