How do I find or erase my phone with Find My Device? (2024)

FAQs

How do I erase my phone with Find My Device? ›

When you erase a device remotely using Find My, Activation Lock remains on to protect it. Your Apple Account password is required to reactivate it. If you erase a device that had iOS 15, iPadOS 15, or later installed, you can use Find My to locate or play a sound on the device.

Go to android.com/find on your web browser. Sign in with the Google account connected to the lost device. The device will be displayed at the top of the screen, pick the lost phone.

Sign in to iCloud.com/find. Choose your lost device. Select Erase [Device], then tap Erase to confirm.

If you no longer want to see a friend's location, you can remove them from Find My. When you remove a friend, you can no longer see their location, and they can no longer see yours.

You can remotely erase your device using the Find My app or at iCloud.com/find. If your device has iOS 15 or later, or iPadOS 15 or later, you can still use Find My or iCloud.com/find to locate it after you erase it.

Key Takeaways. You can track powered-off Android phones using the offline finding feature on Google Find My Device and Samsung SmartThings Find.

Can you locate a phone if its dead? ›

Can You Track Phone without Battery? No, you cannot track your phone without a battery. But you can track the last location of the phone before its battery had taken out using a GPS tracking app.

Third-Party Tools. Several online websites and apps allow you to find phone location using only the phone number. Some examples are SPOKEO, iMapp, etc. These third-party tools can vary in method, accuracy, and you may even have to pay for some of them.

Go to https://www.google.com/android/find and sign in with the Google account you used to login to your Google phone. If your phone is stolen or lost, select the device and select Erase device to remotely wipe the phone.

Even if your location services are turned off, your phone can still be tracked through your IP address. You'll need to download a VPN to be even more invisible on the web.

You can go into your settings and turn on Bluetooth, see what devices have been connected or paired. Same with mirroring, nearby share, screensharing. Check to see if auto scan nearby devices is on, NFC, etc. Some lower versions of Android aren't capable of some of them.

Sign in to the Find My Device page (URL: google.com/android/find). A factory reset is performed on the device, permanently erasing all apps, settings, etc. If the device is offline, the reset is performed when it goes online.

Thanks to iCloud's Find My iPhone feature, if you were logged in to your account on your phone when you misplaced it, you'll be able to use any computer to sign in to iCloud and wipe your phone.

A factory restore does not disable Find My Phone. Only turning it off before the device was restored, or knowing the password to the Apple ID that enabled it. When you've wiped your device, it should have popped the widow asking to log in to your Apple ID and disable Find My iPhone.