{"id":234466,"date":"2025-10-30T18:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234466\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T18:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:27:15","slug":"older-google-pixel-phones-cant-precisely-locate-uwb-trackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234466\/","title":{"rendered":"Older Google Pixel phones can\u2019t precisely locate UWB trackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google introduced support for the ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless protocol with the Pixel 6 Pro in 2021. But if you\u2019ve been struggling to get your Pixel phone to precisely locate one of the few Android-compatible trackers that support UWB, it\u2019s because that feature is only enabled on the Pro models of the Pixel 8 and above, Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/older-pixel-phones-uwb-precision-finding-3610901\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed to Android Authority<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google didn\u2019t explain why UWB precise tracking isn\u2019t enabled on the older Pixel 6 Pro or Pixel 7 Pro, despite both of those models having the necessary hardware. The Verge reached out to Google for an explanation and will update this story if one is provided. The limitation is also <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/android\/answer\/3265955#zippy=%2Cadd-a-new-accessory\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">noted on a support page on Google\u2019s website<\/a> that points out support for UWB precise finding is only available on a limited number of Android phones including the Plus and Ultra versions of the Samsung Galaxy S21 and above plus some Motorola Edge and Razr models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google introduced support for the ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless protocol with the Pixel 6 Pro in 2021. But if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[786,844,2305,2306,50,227,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-234466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-google-pixel","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}