This morning, the Android team announced support for Android Device Manager from Android Wear devices, making the frustration of misplacing your phone a tiny bit less of an issue.
To use it, all you will need is your Android Wear smartwatch, which will help you locate your missing smartphone. Our guess is that you might need to be synced to your device, but if WiFi support does come in the next Android Wear update, then maybe you won’t need to be linked up.
As stated in the blog post from the Android team, “To use this new feature, just say ‘Ok, Google. Start. Find my phone,’ or select the ‘Find my phone’ option in the Start menu. Your phone will ring at full volume, and you’ll be that much closer to, well, finding your phone.”
Additionally, it is automatically rolling out all Android Wear users, meaning you don’t need to do anything to enable it.
Sweet.
How will this work if android wear doesn’t support data on the watch unless it’s attached to the phone?
they really need to update that device manager’s icon..
Pear (the app) vibrates if I’m outside of a certain feet from my phone so I don’t forget it at the restaurant or at my girls house.
ive been reading that this update kills your battery a lot faster
tried to use it on my z3c with android 4.4.4 and it shows the icon in the notification that something is happening but it does not ring the phone. Is it 5.0 only?
This will be helpful only to those that have misplaced their phone close by. Not very helpful to those who lost it in some distant and unknown land.
A welcomed addition nonetheless.
“To use this new feature, just say ‘Ok, Google. Start. Find my phone,’ or select the ‘Find my phone’
That’s the exact command the find my phone app uses. Probably going to conflict.
Will it work the other way around?
it already does.
This will be great once we get wifi support.
This is pretty good as long as I’m not limited to only being, at most, 33 feet from my phone.
Yes, pretty much useless.
You are, that is the point of this. This is so you can find your phone within your house, not so you can find your phone anywhere in the world.
Personally, I’d prefer that to be a native function of Android Wear but if Google’s going to tie it to Android Device Manager then I expect something more robust than ringing my phone through the Bluetooth connection if I’m close enough.
Sure, however the limitation currently is that Wear watches are not wifi enabled. When we see some that are, i’d expect this functionality to expand so that a person could ring their phone, lock it, or wipe it from anywhere. i definitely look forward to that.
nice addition. always wondered why they didn’t have this feature.
Probably wait to see what ideas third party apps come up with, then incorporate them into AW updates, lol.
Hrm. Not working for me yet.
Noticed this on my 360 yesterday
Great. Now give me Google voice support with hangouts on android wear!
I’d just like the Ok Google answers to be the same. Example: I’m able to ask my phone what time Target closes, but my watch just shows me search results.
THIS