{"id":351492,"date":"2025-12-17T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/351492\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:08:10","slug":"google-releases-find-hub-app-for-wear-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/351492\/","title":{"rendered":"Google releases Find Hub app for Wear OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Find-Hub-app-icon-1.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/01\/31\/find-my-device-pixel-watch-app\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously spotted<\/a> in a promo video for the Pixel Watch 3, Google has released a Find Hub app for Wear OS.<\/p>\n<p>The Wear OS client starts with a \u201cMy devices\u201d list of everything logged into your Google Account. Selecting a phone, tablet, watch, headphones, tracker, etc. takes you to a details page that first notes when it was last seen and the current battery level. You get a map view that when tapped offers to open Google Maps on your wrist and then provides directions in various modes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Your in-app options are Play sound, Secure device, Get directions, and Factory reset, with a refresh button at the very bottom. This experience is very much like the phone app.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cPhone ringing\u201d screen makes use of Material 3 Expressive, while the Pixel Watch 4\u2019s ultra-wideband (UWB) capabilities do not appear to be leveraged for precise finding.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the device list, you get Settings and an account switcher.\u00a0Overall, this is a very straightforward client. <\/p>\n<p>Find Hub appears before \u201cFind my phone\u201d in your watch\u2019s app list\/grid, with the latter remaining a dedicated shortcut.<\/p>\n<p>To install, search \u201cFind Hub\u201d in the on-watch Play Store. You can also start the download from your phone by using \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.adm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Install on more devices<\/a>.\u201d  Google is also rolling out a small update to the Find Hub phone app today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764374954_669_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764374954_276_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As previously spotted in a promo video for the Pixel Watch 3, Google has released a Find Hub&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[49,48,195,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-351492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}