After introducing the security measure in 2024The Find Hub app (formerly Find My Device) no longer requires biometric confirmation.
Find Hub no longer asks for your fingerprint or PIN before opening Device or People lists.
The change was implemented within the last few hours and was still in effect when we last checked this morning. It is a server-side implementation, with the latest Play Store update in February.
Biometric login should at least be an option for Find Hub, as Google Authenticator offers a “privacy screen.” That said, location sharing on Google Maps has no such protections. Find My on iOS also opens immediately without additional confirmation.
Fingerprint unlocking on Find Hub can be annoying if you’re actively using it to navigate to someone else 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 latest update: “We have resolved an issue where precision search was not working correctly on certain Android devices.”
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