Find My Device
Find My Device is a very useful service offered on Android devices. It provides users with the abilities to locate, track, lock and erase a device remotely. Stolen or misplaced devices can be located and tracked. Devices carrying sensitive data can be remotely locked or even permanently erased to protect the data.
To use Find My Device, it is necessary that the user has logged in to the device using a Google account and also enabled Find My Device on it.
How to enable Find My Device
- Search for google.com/settings on your browser.
- Sign in to your Google account and verify that the visibility option for your device is checked.
- Then make sure the Location setting on your Android device is enabled. For this first tap on the Settings app on the device.
- In the Connection settings enable the Location option.
Once your device’s visibility and location settings are enabled, you can start using Find My Device for it.
How to locate a device using Find My Device
- Go to the website address https://www.google.com/android/find on any browser.
- Once you log in with your Google account credentials, you will see your android device(s) connected to this account.
- The large green dot with a rectangle shows the exact location of your device on a map.
How to make your device play a sound using Find My Device
To locate your device, you can make it play a sound using Find My Device. This can be done even if the device is on silent.
- Click on the Play Sound
- Once the device starts ringing you can either spot it and use its Home button to stop the ringing or you can use the green Stop Ringing button on the Find My Device interface. Else the device will play the sound for 5 minutes.
How to lock a device using Find My Device
- Click on the Lock option on the Find My Device interface.
- When you choose to remotely lock your device, you can leave a phone number or message that appears on the screen in case someone finds it. This is optional.
Finally, hit the Lock button!
How to erase a device using Find My Device?
- Click on the Erase option on the Find My Device interface.
- You will see warning messages about erasing data from the device. Once the data is erased remotely there is no way of recovering it.
If you are still positive about wanting to permanently erase the device, hit the green Erase button.
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