Today our Android smartphone knows everything about us, it contains private and confidential information. In addition to photos and videos, we have the passwords of all our social networks, the bank and many other things. Many even have their debit card linked to their smartphone, to pay from it. Losing it can be a very serious problem, so we are going to give you four options to find your lost mobile.
We will see a simple way to find or 'destroy' our Android terminal using Google. We will also see other options to track a cell phone, whether for the family environment, to manage access to a minor's technology and even an alternative to what Google offers us. These last three are applications that we will have to install and configure, although they are quite simple.
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Google helps us find our Android mobile if we have lost it
I don't know if it has ever happened to you to leave your smartphone in a room, start doing things and not know where you have the terminal. For these cases there is applications that allow us to geolocate the smartphone. This function is also offered by Google natively.
For this we must be logged in Google Chrome with the same account that we have in our Android terminal. It is basically our email and password, something we all know. We can go to the Google control panel from our browser profile, but it is a bit confusing. There is an easier solution: put in the search engine 'locate smartphone'
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It's that simple to find our terminal thanks to Google. An option will appear, like the one shown below. It will indicate the name of the terminal, the date of the last synchronization and it will allow us to 'ring' and 'recover'.
If we click on 'start session' we enter a very complete menu to find the terminal. This menu indicates the model of our terminal, if it is connected to a WiFi and the name of this and tells us up to the battery percentage of the terminal. That last.
We will see a very simple map with highlights and where our terminal is located. If we have lost it at home, we can make it play the ringtone for five minutes, even if the terminal is silent.
It also allows us to lock the device. This function logs out of our Google account so that no one can access the data and block the terminal. If we cannot locate the device, we have the option to self-destruct or erase data from the device. It simply deletes all our data, photos and any private content.
Three options for three different environments
Life360
This application available for both Android and iOS allows you to geolocate and find a lost mobile using GPS technology. This application is especially interesting for the youngest or oldest in our house. It is ideal to know where our children or our elders are. Be careful, this is to verify or know if our relative is okay and is where he has indicated, not to use it to spy, since this could end up being a legal problem.
The application allows you to generate Circles, which are nothing more than groups where our family or friends can be. These Circles may be intended to communicate between members and some may have the function of geolocation. Each Circle can be configured according to needs.
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Within the application we can see the members of the different Circles on a map that can only be accessed by invitation. The Circle member must have tracking activated. Additionally, if we want, we can share our location in the Circles.
We could describe this application as a WhatsApp that allows you to geolocate another person.
FamilySafe
We turn to an application more designed for parental control of minors than to find a lost mobile. This application, available for Android and iOS, allows you to manage the devices of minors. The application not only allows you to geolocate the minor, it also allows you to adjust the minor's interaction with the terminal.
This application, according to the developers of FamiSafe, is designed to monitor the child's first steps and thus prevent bullying, control the location of the child and monitor the time spent with the terminal. Therefore, it is a very complete application, focused on the safety and education of the minor with new technologies.
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In addition, the application allows you to create 'safe locations'. These locations are areas or places of trust where we know for sure that the minor is safe. If for whatever reason it leaves this area, it will send us an instant notice so that we know.
Regarding the minor's interaction with the smartphone, the application allows setting time limits. It even allows you to set hours when you cannot use the terminal, such as school or at night.
SeekDroid
This application to find a lost phone has been developed to be very simple to use. The application only needs to be installed, as well as a username and a secret code. After this we can direct us to your website and thus be able to locate the terminal remotely.
Something very interesting is that it allows you to show the location and even activate the GPS remotely. We can also choose to activate an audible alarm even if the terminal goes into silent mode. It offers us the option to lock the terminal with a password, view the last calls made or delete all our content from the terminal so that no one accesses it.
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Despite everything, there is a risk that it will be erased by someone a little clever. To avoid deleting it, we can hide its existence from the list of applications. It has a security system that prevents uninstallation and also, even if the SIM is removed, the application continues to operate with very low battery consumption.
Note that this security application has a cost of € 0.73, an amount that is not refundable. If we delete it, we will lose what we paid for it, which is not much either.
