Google pulled the Find Hub biometric requirement overnight. The app formerly known as Find My Device doesn’t ask for your fingerprint anymore when you open it to check where your devices or people are.

The silent server rollout confirms (via 9to5Google) quietly that this wasn’t planned as some grand security rethink; it just happened. The most recent Play Store update was in February, which means the switch flipped backend only.

Google had added the security layer back in 2024, making it feel responsible and locked down. Now, anyone who grabs your unlocked phone can see exactly where everything is.

If you were actively using Find Hub biometric as a navigation tool, bouncing back and forth trying to locate someone you’re picking up, that double authentication got old fast.

Unlock the phone, then unlock the app again. So the new behavior actually puts Google in line with how the rest of the ecosystem works.

Google also let slip in that February update that they would have “resolved an issue where Precision Finding wasn’t working correctly on certain Android devices.”

Precision Finding is the UWB stuff that’s supposed to make finding trackers less of a guessing game. If it wasn’t working right until last month, that’s a bigger problem.

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