Losing
your phone can happen easily. Unfortunately, finding it again can often be not
so easy. Google has just made the search process a little easier for Android
users, however. Now they need only type "find my phone" into Google
Search using a desktop browser.
In
order for the functionality to work, users must be logged into the same Google
account on the browser as they are on their phone. They must also have the
latest version of the Google app installed on their device. Assuming all that
is the case, a "Find your phone" map will appear at the top of the
Google Search results.
Once
Google has successfully pinpointed the phone in question (as long as it's
powered on, this should work), it displays the location of the device on a map
and offers to ring it. Ringing it, of course, helps in those occasions that
your phone has slipped behind a couch cushion or whatnot, while displaying it
on map is useful if you've left it somewhere like a coffee shop or bar.
Previously, it was necessary to install the
Android Device Manager app to locate a lost Android phone (assuming you hadn't
turned the service off, as it's on by default). Plenty of users simply won't
have been aware of those possibilities – and this new approach, which is simply
a web-based version of Android Device Manager, makes it easy for anyone to
locate a lost device.
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