Recently, Google has changed the legacy “Find your phone” method that some Android owners have used to ring their lost or misplaced phone. In short, people should now use the new Find Hub experience.
For many years, the first result people saw when searching “find my phone” was a link to a Google Account page: myaccount.google.com/find-your-phone-guide. In general, this site is for editing personal information, changing account-level settings, etc.
2019 vs. 2025
However, it also housed the original “Find your phone” experience that shows a list of your phones and tablets. Upon selecting a device, there was previously a “Ring” button to play a sound on your phone.
In recent weeks, people that used this legacy Find your phone method noticed that Ring is no longer available. Instead, the only thing they see is a “Try calling your phone” suggestion that amusingly mentions Hangouts: “If you can’t remember your number, ask a friend or use Contacts to look it up. You can also try to make a call using Hangouts or a similar service.”
This page is more about what steps you should take, like signing out of your Google Account, if a device is truly missing.
Google has removed the Ring feature here, but users can get the same capability on the modern “Find Hub” website. In Google Search results, the page is still titled “Find My Device,” but google.com/android/find/ has otherwise been updated with this month’s rebrand.
Last week, Google rolled out the Find Hub app update to rename it from “Find Device” on Android. Similarly, the website features the “Devices” and “People” tabs.
Google should place a shortcut to the Find Hub website on the old page to avoid this confusion that we’ve seen quite a few reports about.
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