Google’s new Find people feature for Wear OS looks pretty limited at first glance. You can’t use your watch to start sharing your location, and you can’t pull up a map showing where someone else is. But that’s because the feature doesn’t really seem intended to work both ways. Its more useful job is letting other people keep track of you when your phone isn’t around.
As 9to5Google spotted, Find people is now appearing on Wear OS as part of Find Hub, and the watch app handles most of the setup elsewhere. If you haven’t already configured location sharing, it will simply show an “Open on phone” button. Once you start sharing your location with someone through Find Hub on your phone, that person then appears on the watch under “Can see your location,” along with how long the sharing session will last. This uses Google’s existing Location Sharing system, the same underlying setup when people tracking arrived in Find My Device.
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