How to find my lost or stolen Android phone

Occurs. There are moments in life that we have to face with integrity, calm and without nerves. Having your mobile phone lost or stolen is not pleasant at all, and even more so taking into account the prices at which some of the best mobile terminals that have come out in the last two years are reaching. Running out of mobile from one second to another is equivalent to that wallet theft in which you treasure dozens of cards and various documentation. As is often said, what matters least, in the end, is the money and more the time that you are going to spend in making the duplicate of everything that you had inside.The same goes for mobile. Although money, in the latter case, does hurt a little more.

Find my device, an essential app on all Android

So that it is not stolen or lost, all we can do is pay attention to our device. On the other hand, there are different ways to prevent access to your phone, such as activating a good security method such as facial scanning or fingerprint reader. But let's imagine that what no one wants has happened, you have lost it or it has been stolen. How to find my lost or stolen Android phone? Do not miss the keys that we tell you below.

The first thing you have to do is download an application from the Google Play application store called 'Find my device'.The application has been developed by Google itself, so you can install it on your phone with total security. The download file also does not reach 2 MB, so you can get it whenever you want without having to be under a WiFi connection. We proceed to open the application and complete the registration of our device through our Google account.

Find my device is very easy to use

Following registration, we will, of course, give you permission to access our location. It is of vital importance that you never turn off the GPS of our phone if you later want the application to work correctly, because what the application is going to do is, through another Android phone , locate yours using the location. Location turned off is a lost phone and yes, with GPS activated we have a permanent locator in our pocket, but it is up to you to decide whether it is worth turning it off.

Once the application has located you on the map, we will observe it. At the top we have all the devices that we have synchronized with the app If it is not the first time we open it and connect, old terminals may appear. We don't have to do anything else, the application will already be installed and ready for use.

Now comes the really important thing. If they have been lost or stolen, we have to go to another Android device, that of a relative or friend, and install this same application, if they do not have it. Next, we are going to register with our Android account and open the map. Here we will see where our phone is and, from a distance, we can make it ring to listen to it when we are close or delete the data and delete it if we have already given it up as lost.In the app's three-point menu we can change accounts to search for any phone, change the name of our device, etc. If you want to locate the phone via the web, it is also possible by entering the 'Find your mobile' section in your Google account.