Are you prone to losing your phone or even misplacing your Android phone at home? Now you don’t need a third party Android app to locate your lost or misplaced Android devices any more. Android device manager has been made available to almost all Android devices since August 2013. This native app can help you to remotely wipe the data on your Android phone or remotely trigger its ringing, you can even track its location in real-time via a PC.
How to turn on Android Device Manager
Provided your Android device is running on Android OS 2.2 and above and connected to a Google account, you are meant to receive this update. If you have noticed a green app called Google Settings on your device that means you have received the Android device manager update.
Even if you haven’t noticed the Google Settings app you can still turn on your Android device manager by navigating to Settings -> Security ->Device Administrators.
Check the checkbox that says “Allow Android Device Manager to lock or erase a lost device” which will prompt a security screen as shown below.
Manage your Android devices via the web portal
So you can visit the Android device manager web portal https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager to start managing your registered Android devices. You can track your lost Android phone, remotely activate its ringer or even erase all the data on it.
This method does not require you to buy or use any third party Android app to track your lost Android phone, simply activate or enable the Android device manager feature on your Android devices and track it anytime via the web portal.
Even if such device has been switched off, once you activate the data wipe feature, the device will be factory reset once it comes online.
I hope you can easily track your Android phone easily using this method I shared here with you; if you have any questions use the comment section below to ask your questions.
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thanks for this detailed information on how to track our loss phones with the Android device manager, this will really come in handy when my android phone gets missing.
Thanks Nwosu Mavtrevor .
Nice, thanks. I had read about this before, but never looked into it. This looks easy to setup, does it effect your battery at all?
Glad you find my tutorial useful.
No it doesn’t affect your battery at all…
Good and useful Info Shared . I have installed two third party App to my Tab to track that if that lost and bothe of them are not free they are asking annual fee for their service . I have search for any trusted and free app but I could not found . Now you shared a grate app of google . Now I am going to check how It works for me .
Glad you found my post informative, Google has made it easier to track our lost or stolen android devices with the android device manager feature.
For iPhone I use “Find my iPhone” app that has ability to track all stolen apple devices. :)
hi nwosu. sorry for the late comment coz i am quite busy in my freelance writing. about this article, too bad i do not have an android phone but i am looking forward to have one. we only have an android tablet (Samsung Tab 2). is this app can be used in android tablet?
keep posting and regards :)
Hi Nwosu, This is a nice post. I also use the android device manage in case I want to track my android phone.
Track your lost Android phone with Android Device Manager. You do not have to install a third party app to track your lost Android device anymore. Thanks for your sharing information post command