I really want this. But at the same time I’m really worried about how much battery life this is going to drain.
If it’s less than 1% every 24 hours I’m ok with it. If it’s more, nope.
Google in the past years is focusing a lot in adding more and more services while forgetting that what the people just want is to have a phone that lasts the entire day and can fit in normal pockets.
I really can’t imagine jt be that bad. It should just be an occasional ping, unless you want to track on demand. At least that’s how the Apple Find My ecosystem works. If I don’t check a device’s location, it doesn’t ping for hours, but then if I want, I can watch a device in real time (impacting battery of course). I’d imagine google’s implementation will be similar
I can’t see why not. With Apple it is a simple on-off toggle for each device and of turned on the user chooses one device that they want to use to indicate their location
But we are talking about having our device inadvertently used by Google to locate other peoples devices. They are advertising that they have a network of over a billion android devices to locate such things. Not only do I not want to buy a tracker I also don’t want to participate in this network.
It’s not really the thing that is important. On principal I disagree with the idea that it isn’t opt-in only. Then ontop of that if there is no way to even opt-out that is crossing the line. It doesn’t matter what it is or what it is for.
I really want this. But at the same time I’m really worried about how much battery life this is going to drain. If it’s less than 1% every 24 hours I’m ok with it. If it’s more, nope.
Google in the past years is focusing a lot in adding more and more services while forgetting that what the people just want is to have a phone that lasts the entire day and can fit in normal pockets.
I have the pixel 7, and I have found that not having any friends, and surfing the net on other devices really helps the battery to last 2 days!
I have a Pixel 6 I think, for work. Pretty much only use it for 2fa at work, so it lasts for several days.
Lol. I’m pretty sure there must be something there draining the battery that can be disabled. (Maybe preference of LTE over 5G, stuff like that).
I have a Pixel 5 and I always had full day battery life (I’m not a heavy user). So good battery life.
But I used to charge it every 3 days and this year on the 2nd day I need to charge it.
And the battery menu can’t be trusted. It doesn’t even update quickly.
Samsung’s and Apple’s have negligible battery drain.
I really can’t imagine jt be that bad. It should just be an occasional ping, unless you want to track on demand. At least that’s how the Apple Find My ecosystem works. If I don’t check a device’s location, it doesn’t ping for hours, but then if I want, I can watch a device in real time (impacting battery of course). I’d imagine google’s implementation will be similar
It’s been negligible for almost a decade: https://www.aislelabs.com/reports/ibeacon-battery-drain-iphones/
You also likely have devices using Bluetooth LE around you already.
There must be a way to completely opt out and not have this affect your device in any way right?
I doubt it
Looks like I’ll be installing some custom OS like Graphene.
@Izzy @Tagger That’s an excellent choice if you want to have control over your phone instead of it having control over you. 😉
@Izzy @Tagger CalyxOS is a fantastic choice too! :blobfoxcomputer:
I can’t see why not. With Apple it is a simple on-off toggle for each device and of turned on the user chooses one device that they want to use to indicate their location
But we are talking about having our device inadvertently used by Google to locate other peoples devices. They are advertising that they have a network of over a billion android devices to locate such things. Not only do I not want to buy a tracker I also don’t want to participate in this network.
I’m okay with helping people find their things. Especially if I’m in an airport or generally in public.
Maybe I’d want it off when I’m connected to my home WiFi.
It’s not really the thing that is important. On principal I disagree with the idea that it isn’t opt-in only. Then ontop of that if there is no way to even opt-out that is crossing the line. It doesn’t matter what it is or what it is for.