How Can Find or Locate Lost Android Mobile Phone ?

Will my phone work with Find My Device

Before we show you how to get started installing and setting up Find My Device, it's important to know whether your phone will work with it. If you're running a device running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or later, you'll be able to install Find My Device. That means roughly over 99% of active Android devices — or 2 billion devices worldwide — are eligible to install Find My Device.

How to install Find My Device

This is the easy part. Just head to the Play Store and search for Find My Device to download the app. We'll break it down for you:

1. Open Play Store from your home screen or app drawer.
2. Search for Find My Device.

3. Tap the three dots next to the first search result and select Install.

   

How to sign in to Find My Device

After installation, you'll need to sign in to Find My Device from your Google account. If you're signed into more than one account on your phone, you get a drop-down menu from which you can select the account you want to associate with the phone.

1. Open Find Device from your home screen or app drawer.
2. Select the Google account you want to use the service with.

3. Hit the Continue as button.

   

4. Enter your Google account password.
5. Tap Sign in.

6. Give location access to the service.

   

How to see if your phone is discoverable with Find My Device

Once you're signed in to Find My Device, you'll see a map with your current location as well as the make and model of your phone, and two options — Play Sound, and Enable Lock & Erase. Hitting the latter option will allow you to start using the Lock and Erase functions.

If you've signed into more than one phone, you can select a particular device by browsing the list at the top of the screen.

1. Open Find My Device from your home screen or app drawer.
2. Select your phone from the list of devices at the top of the screen.

3. See if your phone is discoverable.

   

If you're not able to find your phone or if it says that the device is unavailable, it is likely that the location services are disabled. Find My Device relies on GPS to track your phone, so now would be a good time to enable location services.

1. Open Settings from your home screen or app drawer.
2. Tap Location.

3. Toggle Enable location services.