We all feel bad when we lost our phones not only because of the price that we bought the phone but also our documents, personal information and important files are lost which getting them back is hardly.
Today our phones are made with smart features which you can track your lost device using your friend’s phone. Almost all Androids and iOSs come with feature so that when your device is lost or stolen then you can use that feature to track your phone. This feature is called find my device in most of the android phones.
Many android users lost their phones either by stealing or felling down without their knowing, most of them take the case to trackers in order to track the lost phone by paying them money but they don’t know that there are something to do in order to recover the phone without paying anything. Tracking your device can be done with many types of apps; like Google maps, carrier phone finders, phone trackers, Google find my phone and so on. In this post we are going to use Google find my device.
Google find my device is tracking app developed by Google to helps you track your android phone which also give owner an access to wipe data and lock the device remotely. The app is free to use, all it require is the valid Google account bind to the lost device.
Using find my device made tracking your device easier it can help you to locate your phone within a certain distance, wipe your data and make your device to make a sound. The feature also support known places in a map like shopping malls, restaurants and airports so that to make the tracking easier.
How to track your android phone using find my device
Before going to the steps here are the things to consider in order to track your lost device.
The lost phone must be turned on and it must have a signed Google account also the device location (GPS) must be active and it must have an active internet connection and lastly the find my device option must be turned on. Confirming whether the phone is on or off and has an active internet connection is difficult because the device is no longer with the owner, but if the other requirements (Location, signed Google account, find my device option is enabled) are available then you can try the next steps.
Carefully follow the steps below correctly.
1. Borrow you friend’s phone or laptop and navigate to the chrome browser then sign in your Google account by entering Google account sign-in in your browser search bar and press enter.
2. After the requested input (Google account sign in ) finishes loading then look for the search results to sign in with your Google account which is usually (sign in – Google Accounts) then click on it to open the sign in page to input your email address and password ( the same email in the lost device).
3. After successfully signing in then enter this URL in your browser http://www.google.com/android/find.
4. When the page finish loading then it will automatically display a map showing the last known location of your device with three options on the bottom of your screen which are Play sound, Lock and Erase.
Clicking on the play sound option will make the phone to make a sound, this is important when you are in the current location of the device but many people are around then using this can make the phone to ring aloud for five minutes even when the phone is in silent mode.
Erase option let you erase all your device data. When you find it hardly to know exactly the location of your device then you may try to make your information inaccessible by using the erase option to wipe all your data. Lock option can lock your device as long as you want so as to make the device inaccessible up to when you found the phone.
Keeping all the tracking requirements active can make it easy to remotely track, lock and wipe your phone if you lost, because if the two to three of the requirements more especially phone location (GPS) and find my device options are off then this will make it hard to track the device.
Conclusion
Many heard of any lost phone can be tracked using different types of tracking apps and find my device is among those apps. You can track, wipe data and erase with Google find my device, provided that all the tracking requirements are enable. Kindly leave your comment if you found this post to be helpful.
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