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Google your lost Android phone
- Errorcod3 11y agoWe’ve all been there — you’ve searched under your car seat, tossed around the sofa cushions and you still can’t find your phone. If you know where your computer is, you can now ask Google to find your Android phone from your desktop. If the pesky phone is hiding nearby, Google can ring it for you — or you can see it on the map if you, say, forgot it at the bar. Just make sure you’ve got the latest version of the Google app installed on your device!
- marvy 11y agoThe ringing feature works as long as your phone has background data turned on (I think). But the location feature needs you to have location turned on as well.
- lkbm 11y agoIs this supposed to just be GWS? It's not working for me. (Of course, I have the interface set to Spanish, which has occasionally kept things like "weather" from working as well.) EDIT: https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager works fine. Just not doing anything from GWS.
- 27182818284 11y agoYes. It works right in the standard Google homepage. (For me it requests I sign in again for security first)
- fphhotchips 11y agoIt makes me log in again to use it. That's fine except that I have 2FA, the codes for which are generated by my phone. Now, yes, I can use Authy to go and get them, but I suspect that if I were using Google Authenticator I'd still be without a phone.
- jordanthoms 11y agoYou could use backup codes or the account recovery procedures in that case.
- plorg 11y agoOther than a front page macro, is there a new feature? Obviously the Android Device Manager has been around for a long time, but could you always use it to ring your phone? I could have sworn I saw the 'ring' option on the tracking page at least several weeks ago.