Huawei is quietly building out its own ecosystem, one feature at a time, and the latest addition is actually pretty useful. The company has announced a new “Find Friends” feature coming to its MeeTime app, tied to the HarmonyOS 7.0 update. It lets users locate friends directly through their Huawei handsets, no third-party app required.
So what is MeeTime exactly? Think of it as Huawei’s answer to FaceTime. It’s a built-in calling and communication app that ships with Huawei devices, and the company has been steadily adding features to it over time. Dropping a friend-finding tool into that app makes sense. It keeps users inside Huawei’s own software rather than jumping over to Google Maps or WhatsApp to share locations.
And that’s really the bigger story here. Huawei has been working hard to build a self-contained software world since it lost access to Google services back in 2019. HarmonyOS is the foundation of that effort, and every new feature that gets added is another brick in the wall. Find Friends isn’t just a convenience, it’s part of a long-term strategy to make Huawei phones feel complete without Google.
The feature is expected to roll out with HarmonyOS 7.0, which puts it in line with Huawei’s broader push to keep its software on par with what iOS and Android offer. Apple has had Find My Friends baked into its ecosystem for years. Google has location sharing built into Maps. Huawei is just catching up in that specific area, but the fact that it’s doing it natively, inside its own app, is worth paying attention to.
- Find Friends is integrated directly into MeeTime
- It ships with the HarmonyOS 7.0 update
- No third-party apps needed to locate contacts
- Keeps the experience inside Huawei’s own software ecosystem
For Huawei users, especially those outside of markets with full Google access, this kind of built-in feature actually matters. It fills a real gap. Whether the execution is smooth when the update lands widely is another question, but the intent here is clear. Huawei wants its phones to handle everyday tasks without depending on anyone else’s platform to do it.