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Awesome.

Time for me to buy my first iPhone then.

Sincerely, f** Google. I've been android user since I had to abandon Symbian, and their impotence in this one thing is staggering.

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Ironically, one of the reason Google's offerings are (were?) worse is because Google prioritized privacy and required pings from multiple phones to count a tracker as seen.

I don't know.... Phones are not identified to the tracker owner and trackers are not identified to phone owner.

But basically this means that only items in the high traffic areas can be found.

I bought my first a years ago after some awful customer service experiences with Google re: Pixel phones. While iOS is not without its faults, most of the "just works" marketing has thus far turned out to be true in my experience. Their software feature set isn't on the cutting edge for a lot of things (my iPhone 13 couldn't even display the weather on the lock screen when I first got it), but they do generally get there eventually.

I remain incompatible with iOS and there's near zero chance of me using it on my handset (I had one for 2 years as company phone), but I applaud the utility of "find my".

Ironically, in the light of your post, I migrated my main phone to Pixel (with GrapheneOS due to the additional functionality), but admittedly I dread my potential clash with Google service -- you can't even chargeback them if you're not ready to losing access to EVERYTHING related to Google.

I'd like another way but no other Android vendor offers secure hardware :(

Yep, it's basically a duopoly at the moment (I don't consider Samsung a real option for a variety of reasons).

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