{"id":526366,"date":"2026-03-10T08:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/526366\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:10:09","slug":"find-hub-for-android-removes-biometric-login","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/526366\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Hub for Android removes biometric login"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/moto-tag-find-hub-uwb-1.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>After introducing the security measure <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2024\/10\/22\/find-my-device-for-android-adds-biometric-login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in 2024<\/a>, the Find Hub app (previously Find My Device) no longer requires biometric confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Find Hub no longer asks for your fingerprint or PIN before opening to the Devices or People lists.<\/p>\n<p>The change rolled out in the past few hours and was still in place when we last checked this morning. It\u2019s a server-side rollout, with the most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.adm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Play Store update<\/a> in February.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biometric login should at least be an option for Find Hub, like how Google Authenticator offers a \u201cPrivacy screen.\u201d That said, location sharing in Google Maps has no such protections.\u00a0Find My on iOS also opens immediately without additional confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>Fingerprint unlock in Find Hub could be annoying if you\u2019re actively using it to navigate to another person and have to authenticate twice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In other developments, Google quietly added this line to the \u201cWhat\u2019s new\u201d section of the Play Store listing with the last update: \u201cWe\u2019ve resolved an issue where Precision Finding wasn\u2019t working correctly on certain Android devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More on Find Hub:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"><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":"After introducing the security measure in 2024, the Find Hub app (previously Find My Device) no longer requires&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-526366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526366","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=526366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}