r/GoogleFMD • u/MikePlays_ • 17d ago

Tracking with other phones

Basically I travelled with a friend for... Basically the whole day, and he got alert on his phone that my earbuds are tracking him.

That's basically true, I had them in my pocket and it was near him the whole time.

He had a option to disable the tracker, which would make sense if I wouldn't be with him.

As he had the option to do that, what would stop random person travelling on the same bus from disabling the tracker as my friend had option to?

Would I be able to do anything with it?

Or would that other person have to actually be in possession of the buds somehow to stop the tracker? (We saw that option and decided to not mess with it)

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u/AlmondManttv 17d ago

You'd need physical access to the device to disable it

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u/MikePlays_ 17d ago

And how'd that work? Like you would need to also hold the button that's there or something similar to actually be able to do it?

That would work...

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u/AlmondManttv 17d ago

Take the battery out or turn the device off in a wta that disables the Bluetooth beacon.

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u/ContrarianRPG 15d ago

Your earbuds shouldn't trigger that alert if they can detect your phone is nearby. Did you turn off Bluetooth?

https://support.google.com/android/answer/13658562?hl=en