Secure your phone
Best tip ever: Set up Find My Device as soon as you get your phone
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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.
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Lost and found
How to find your lost Android phone
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.
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The ultimate guide to finding your lost Android phone
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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.
Same app new design
Google's 'Find My Device' app is the next-gen Android Device Manager
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Android Device Manager is now Find My Device, and it has a few new features to keep it useful and relevant.
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You can now quickly Google 'Find My Phone' to find a device
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Lose your phone? You can now simply ask Google to find it for you right from a web search.
It really shouldn't
Does Doze interfere with Android Device Manager?
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Doze is one of those things that folks either love or hate, and when something goes wrong with it there's not much you can do but deal with it.
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Track down your Android devices with your Android Wear watch
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Support for Android Wear in Android Device Manager is rolling out now, and is expected to be available to all Wear devices within the next few weeks. Adding Android Wear support to Android Device Manager will allow users to find their missing devices right from their wrists. Of course, Device Manager on Android Wear will come with support for voice commands. From Google: Today we...
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Android Device Manager offers up more lost phone tools
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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 app now lets guests temporarily track their lost phones
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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...
Android Device Manager updated, now has a password prompt
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Authentication makes sure you're the only one managing your Android devices Android Device Manager — the Android service to help find, track and wipe a missing phone or tablet — had its app updated today, and there's just one small change. You can now set things up so you'll need to supply your Google password when opening the app or switching accounts. This seems like a minor change,...
Android Device Manager app launches on Google Play
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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...
Hands-on with the Android Device Manager remote wipe feature
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We wipe out a Nexus 7, so you don't have to wipe yours if you're curious With the new Android Device Manager pushing out all over, we just had to have a look at the new remote wipe feature. I said goodbye to my game progress, made sure any pictures were safely uploaded to Google+, and got to work. It's simple, both in theory and in practice. Locate your device through the Device Manager...
Android Device Manager web page going live for some users
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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...
Android Device Manager beginning to push to phones
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The settings on a few phones have turned up an entry for the new Android Device Manager — have you checked yours? Update: TJ, a reader and admitted Android nerd shot me the apk file. You can download it here. The normal concerns of security and such apply, of course. It looks like the first stage of the new Android Device Manager is pushing out to a few people, but the service is not...
Android Device Manager coming this month; locate and protect your lost Android phone
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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...