Find Hub Adds Code for Showing How Far Friends Are Above or Below You [APK Teardown]

Finding a nearby friend can involve more than knowing how close they are. Two people can be close to one another while still being at different heights. Find Hub’s new strings address that distinction directly: they describe a friend as being a specified distance above or below you.

Our teardown of Google Find My Device 3.1.787-06 uncovered the matching messages. Nearby precision finding for friends has already been reported under the name “People Finding.” The discovery here is more specific: wording that combines a distance with the friend’s position above or below the person looking for them.

Find Hub spells out a friend’s distance above or below you

The two messages form a matching pair. One covers a friend above you; the other covers a friend below. Both address the reader directly and leave a slot for the distance, making this more informative than an above-or-below label on its own.

The app’s wording connects the distance and direction in the same sentence:

Here, %s is the placeholder for the distance value. The strings do not supply an example measurement or specify a unit. We can identify the intended message without assigning it a particular number of meters, feet, or floors.

The friend_distance prefix also ties this wording directly to friend finding. These are labels written for locating a person, with the direction expressed relative to you. That makes the above-and-below wording a concrete detail in the code for the already-public precision-finding capability.

The labels do not explain how Find Hub determines the height difference or whether the messages accompany other visual guidance. They establish the text being prepared, rather than a complete view of the interface.

For you, the useful addition would be a clearer answer when a friend is nearby: how far above or below your position to look.