What is Find My Phone and what are its benefits and limitations

Steps to use the "Find my phone"

1.Log-in to the same Google account on your desktop computer’s browser that you use on your Android smartphone, but before that make sure you must have the latest version of the Google app installed on your smartphone.

2.Now type "Find my phone" into Google's search engine, and that’s it.

As soon as you press the enter button, Google will display a map that eventually shows you a location on the map that is accurate to a certain distance, as for example, the map showed me the location of my <b>smartphone was accurate to 35 feet.</b>

If command fails to track the location then user also have the option to ring the device by hitting "Ring button"

Android device manager is inbuild application in the android smartphone which also provide user the same benfits.

Benefits of "find my phone"

1.Help to track the device if the device is lost or stolen

2.Remote access to the device

Limitation of find my phone command

1.Track the location of user on real time basis cause the privacy of user

2.Smartphone Battery draning

How to Stop google from tracking the smartphone through the "Find my phone Command"


Google track the smartphone with the help of "GPS Tracker" and "Google location service",so Turn off may help to stop google tracking the Smartphone location.It also help to improve the performance of smartphone and battery .

How to disable location tracker??

1.Go to Settings > Security > Device Administrators

2.Uncheck the Box And confirm the same by hitting deactivate button

3.Then go to location service and uncheck the box Google location service and Gps 

4.Done