Older Google Pixel phones can’t precisely locate UWB trackers

Google introduced enactment for the ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless protocol with the Pixel 6 Pro successful 2021. But if you’ve been struggling to get your Pixel telephone to precisely find 1 of the fewer Android-compatible trackers that enactment UWB, it’s due to the fact that that diagnostic is lone enabled connected the Pro models of the Pixel 8 and above, Google confirmed to Android Authority.

Google didn’t explicate wherefore UWB precise tracking isn’t enabled connected the older Pixel 6 Pro oregon Pixel 7 Pro, contempt some of those models having the indispensable hardware. The Verge reached retired to Google for an mentation and volition update this communicative if 1 is provided. The regulation is besides noted connected a enactment leafage connected Google’s website that points retired enactment for UWB precise uncovering is lone disposable connected a constricted fig of Android phones including the Plus and Ultra versions of the Samsung Galaxy S21 and supra positive immoderate Motorola Edge and Razr models.

UWB-capable trackers compatible with Google’s Find Hub web – which itself lone gained support for UWB precise tracking earlier this year – are besides fewer and acold between. Samsung’s SmartTag Plus supported UWB, but is present discontinued. The lone enactment presently disposable is Motorola’s $29 Moto Tag that launched successful June 2024 and added enactment for UWB precision uncovering earlier this twelvemonth done a firmware update.