I lost my cell phone somewhere in the city: here is the solution found by the collaboration between Android and Google
Android looks at the needs of its customers. Among the situations that happen most often is the one linked to the disappearance of the telephone. It can happen in various ways, but it all involves only one situation that solves the problem: finding the smartphone, wherever it is or has been left. The operating system, thanks also to the contribution of Google, has released a new extension to try to help people in these cases: let’s discover it and understand how effective it actually is.
I lost my cell phone: here’s the Android system to find it
Losing a cell phone in Italy is very simple. All it takes is a moment of carelessness and maybe we forget it on a bar table, in the office or it falls out of our pocket at the cinema. The problems become more complicated when this accident happens to us on holiday, where we visit many places, we don’t know the city and we are groping in the dark to find our smartphone. Other times we have to deal with pickpockets, who in a moment of distraction manage to take it out of our pockets.
Products with Android operating system, seeing a growth of this problem between Europe and America, they wanted to bring a solution. If there were already systems for tracking lost cell phones, today this type of function has been enhanced and allows them to be tracked even in very complex conditions. Let’s understand what the updates were and how they can help us.
Finding your phone is easier with Google
To prevent losing and never finding your phone again, we activate this application in a few seconds. First of all, from our Android smartphone we open the mobile settings. We go to the Google item and then press on: “All services”. A list of activities that we can carry out will open. In this case we will look for an item that suits our case: “Find my device“. Once the item is opened, we immediately activate the function.
But now comes the best part. Thanks to the recent Android update, we can also extend the monitoring to phones that are in areas without a telephone line or, in some models, turned off. To activate this item, go to the item: “Find your devices offline”. Here we activate the item: “With the network in all areas”. A very fast method for tracking your cell phone, which considerably increases the chances of loss or theft. A situation that, at least in large European and American cities, is becoming more and more common and the app proves that it is going to solve a similar scenario.
