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TL;DR
- Google lately rebranded Discover My Gadget because the Discover Hub.
- Maybe as a consequence of this, the “Discover your cellphone” web page in Google account settings not permits you to ring your gadget.
- You may nonetheless ring your cellphone from the online, although, as long as you employ the Discover Hub web page.
Between Google I/O 2025, Materials 3 Expressive, Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1, and now Samsung’s One UI 8 beta, Might has been one extremely busy month for all issues Android. With a lot occurring, it’s simple to lose observe of all of the little issues which might be altering, particularly when that influence isn’t instantly apparent. And this week we’re taking the time to recollect what we have to change the following time we wish to observe down a lacking cellphone.
In a thread on the location’s Android sub, he brings our consideration to a doubtlessly irritating scenario customers may encounter when going on the net in an try to find lacking telephones. Up to now, you’ve been capable of go to Google’s “Find your phone” web page inside account settings, displaying lately used units and letting you ring them, to assist in monitoring them down.
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When you can nonetheless entry your units right here, there’s not that choice to make your cellphone begin ringing. As an alternative, you’ll now get a message just like the one you see above right here, which is understandably a bit of irritating — what was once a simple “ring” button is now mainly a shrug emoji, asking you to determine it out.
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If this appears bizarrely half-assed swiftly, at the very least there’s a superb motive for the lack of performance. Fairly than accessing that web page in your account settings, Google now needs you to go to its web destination for the Find Hub. There, you’ll discover precisely the lacking choices you’re in search of, together with the flexibility to ring a lacking cellphone. And that is now all tied collectively in a way more enticing, map-based interface.
Perhaps the actual failure right here is that Google’s not doing extra to direct customers to the Discover Hub from the outdated display screen — or that Google Search doesn’t rank it larger than the account web page for “discover my cellphone” queries. Whereas each of these may change for the higher (and Search could naturally enhance its rating as time goes on), for the second chances are you’ll wish to bookmark the Hub so that you’ll know the place to look once you want it.
