Ask Google About Your Lost Phone Now | Type “Find My Phone” in Google and Find Your Phone on the Map

Google has introduced a useful application in its search engine that finds our phone and locates it on the map.

To find your phone, go to Google.com and type “find my phone” (without quotes) and see the magic.

Take a look at the screenshot to know how it works:

When you type “find my phone” in search engine, it automatically finds the device, place and accurate distance.

You can simply send a ring if you dropped it somewhere at home or in car and searching for it. It rings with a different ringtone louder than usual and so can you find it easily.

Not showing your phone location?

If “find my phone” in Google is not showing your phones location, that means you have not enabled location sharing on your phone. You can enable it from the browser itself by doing the following.

Step #1: Sign in to your Google account by clicking on Sign in button if showed.

Step #2: It might show this following error if location sharing is not enabled on your phone.

Step #3: Click on Allow button to enable your device’s location sharing from your browser.

It then locates your device and shows the exact location within some accuracy. For example, take a look at the screenshot of my Moto E2 phone that I have tracked earlier.

To get access to this screen,

Go to https://www.google.co.in/android/devicemanager and login with your Google account that you used on your device. This screen will give you more controls than Ring. You can even Lock your device or Erase your information from it in case it was lost or stolen.

NOTE: You cannot track your device if it is rooted, Google account signed out or factory reset. This feature of Google cannot completely help you get your stolen phone back. So, don’t quit the idea of filing a complaint in the nearby police station. It might be more easy to track with their help.

Won’t that make Google password secrecy more serious?

Yes! of course. It does. Sharing your Google password to your friends and others can give some control over your phone and content for sure. So, better not to disclose your password of the Google account that you are using on your Android device.

I don’t want Google to show my location. How to hide my location?

You have full control over this feature. You can turn this off for your security purposes, just like the one you saw in a screenshot above.

To hide your location on Google, go to your phone Settings > Location > Turn Off. It then goes unavailable on Google when searched.

Always remember, you can gain control over the phone’s Ring, Lock and Erase features even though the phone’s location sharing is turned off.

Hope that clears all the doubts.

What do you think? Is it safe or vulnerable? Share your thoughts in comments.