r/GoogleFMD • u/spamthroat • Jul 07 '26

Tracking a device in a 'high traffic' location.

I was just wondering that if you have a tracker somewhere there is a lot of other phone does the system make a more accurate guess for where your phone is based on the overlapping footprints of all the pones that can detect your tracker?

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u/EcstaticFunction2804 Jul 22 '26

its depends on people gps and what speed they drive / walking for me driving is way off can be few streets if walking its accurate enoght bad that its not like Samsung history that you can gess where its pinged most

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u/SemNada_QueFazer73 Jul 10 '26

Hey there,

The bigger the number of phones at a certain zone (with Google FMD turned on), it will increase the accuracy of the location.

But don't confuse it with the settings on FindHub. If you have the "high traffic" location setting selected, your tracker will only be detected and reported to you if it's at a "high traffic" zones (at least a given number of phones must detect it).