In earlier times, pickpockets used to steal people’s wallets, although people keep less money in their wallets but on the other hand, it has become common now to find mobile phones and especially expensive mobile phones in people’s pockets. In such a situation, stealing mobile phones has become quite easy for thieves. Often, many incidents of phone theft must have happened in front of you and people are left helpless because the person who steals the phone immediately switches off your phone, after which it becomes very difficult to track the phone.
In such a situation, we are going to tell you such settings which after turning on, you can easily track your phone even after switching it off and the chances of finding the phone increases.
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Let us tell you that Google has released an upgraded version of its special feature ‘Find My Device’, after this upgrade, even if your phone is switched off, you can still know the location of your phone.
Google had announced this feature in 2023 itself, but now this feature has started becoming available in smartphones. So let us know how you can turn on this feature in your phone by going to the settings and take advantage of it. However, let us confirm here that this feature is still available only in the US and Canada, but soon it will be easily available everywhere.
How can iPhone users turn on this setting?
Let us tell you that iPhone has already launched such features. If you are an iOS user, then you just have to enable the Find My setting in your device. For this, you have to go to the settings and tap on your name option and click on Find My. After this, you will see the option of Find My Device in your device and click there and turn on the setting from here.
If you want to know when your phone has gone offline, then you will have to turn on the option of Find My Network from here. Let us tell you that if you are turning on this feature in your iPhone, then for this you will have to keep your location on.
To find your lost phone, you have to open the Find My option in another device and here you have to select the lost item, from here you can find your device through the map. Let us tell you that here you will get many options to find your phone and along with this you will get the option to lock your phone as well.
How can Android users turn on this setting?
If you are an Android user, you will have to go to the Find My Device website and then login to the account with which you have logged in to the lost phone. Here you will find a list of all the devices in which you have logged in with this account. From here you can see the last location of your phone. Because Google’s upgraded ‘Find My Device’ feature has not been released for everyone, it is a bit difficult to provide you with detailed information about the extent to which this setting is working in Android phones.
– Vindhyavasini Singh
