Unfortunately, it often happens that an electronic device gets lost or misplaced. If it has already happened to you, don’t feel guilty because according to a recent research by Lookout, every day in the world they are lost more than 7 million phones. In the ranking of the places where they are lost the most there are obviously apartments, restaurants but also churches and service stations. The worst day, according to the data, is the last day of the year where 14 million phones are lost in a single day.
According to other researches it does not go better with laptops, every 53 seconds one is stolen. The chances of finding these objects are scarce, in the case of phones the estimated percentage is around 7%. Yet technology comes to our aid with systems that allow you to retrace these devices in a simple, precise and fast way. All you have to do is activate this feature.
Google allows you to find a smartphone or tablet with an Android operating system only if the appropriate “Find my device»Has been activated. To do this, go to the Security menu of the device, and to the Privacy or Security and Location submenu. There may be small differences between the different devices, but just do a search for the function in your phone to access it directly.
Once the tracking system is activated, if the phone is switched on and connected to the mobile or wifi networkjust go to the site android.com/find. The map will indicate quite precisely where our phone or tablet is.
Even the Apple world has its own geolocation system and also in this case it must be activated by the user. The function is called «Find my iPhone / iPad» and can be used on any iOS device but the location can also be accessed by entering the credentials at the link www.icloud.com/find. This system allows you to trace even Mac computers, AirPods earphones and the Apple Watch.
The function to find a device is available even for i computer with Windows 10 and 11 operating system. The sequence to activate the service is: Start menu, Settings, Update and security, Find my device. The site to use is: https://account.microsoft.com/devicesby logging in with your Microsoft credentials.
In addition to the services offered by Google, Apple and Microsoft, many smartphone and tablet manufacturers offer their own localization system such as Samsung. To these are added the services developed by specialized companies such as Geomy, Geoapp, Mobfind.
They work essentially in the same way, they independently track phones even if the location function is not activated. In compliance with the privacy law, the service is activated only if identification is authorized by replying to a text message sent to the device. The cost for a test localization is less than 1 eurowhile the monthly pass is around 50 euros.
Source: Vanity Fair
