Worried about misplacing your phone or (worse yet) having it stolen? Ease your fears and set up a tracking system before your worst case scenario strikes.
There are several options available for remotely tracking your phone, but Google's own Find My Device service is one of the most convenient around. Here's how (and why) you should set it up as soon as you get your phone.
Find My Device is a valuable utility, but if you don't want to share your location, you can easily disable the feature.
That sick, sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach that you get when you think you've lost your phone is the worst, but thankfully there are tools to help you locate your lost device. We'll show you how to use Samsung's Find My Mobile feature to find your missing or stolen Galaxy phone.
Find My Device lets you remotely track, lock, and erase the data on a lost or stolen phone. Here's what you need to know about the service, and how to set it up on your phone.
Android Device Manager is now Find My Device, and it has a few new features to keep it useful and relevant.
Lose your phone? You can now simply ask Google to find it for you right from a web search.
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Android Device Manager, the service that helps you locate and lock lost devices, is picking up an update on the web and for Android that gives you better options when locking a device. Now from both the web and the updated Android app, when you go to forcibly lock a phone you own, you can add both a message and a phone number for the person with the phone to call you with. The...
Android Device Manager is an extremely useful app for tracking and finding your lost or stolen phone, and now you can use it to give a friend a helping hand when their phone is lost as well. The latest update to the app gives you a "Guest" option in the account switcher menu, which then lets a friend log into their Google Account and track their Android devices. Once logged in they can...
Like the web interface, the new app lets you remotely track and lock down your other Android devices Google has launched a new Android app allowing users of the Android Device Manager feature to remotely track, ring, lock down or wipe their other devices. Not to be confused with the Google Play Services feature that launched a few months ago, the ADM app duplicates the functionality of...
The second component of the Android Device Manager looks like it's slowly going live We saw the Android Device Manager, Google's find (and wipe) my phone utility, starting to push out it's phone component over the weekend, and today the web interface is live for some folks. It's the second piece of the puzzle you'll need to remotely manage your lost or stolen Android, and something...
Google to offer an official lost phone locator and security application for devices running Android 2.2 or higher There are plenty of tools and software packages out there that will monitor your Android phone and help locate it in the event that it's lost, but until now we've not heard of any official solution from Google themselves. That's about to change according to the official...