I tried Google’s new Find My feature for people; I’m going back to Google’s old Find My for people

What’s old is new again with Google, always. As part of the March Feature Drop for Android phones, Google announced that it was bringing people finding to its existing Find My Device app. Since I’d been using Google Maps location sharing for years, I wondered if this would be a duplicate feature, the same thing, or different/better. So I waited for people finding to pop up in the Find My Device app on my phone and started testing.

The positive? It works, and Google didn’t create an additional solution; it basically integrated this with the existing Maps location sharing for people but made it also available in the Find My Device app so you have one central place to track your things and your people. The negative? Why did it take a whole year to add what is essentially just a quick copy/paste of an existing feature, and why is it missing a few extra options that Maps has? Let’s delve in.