So Do not wait until you have lost your device, there are some features that need to be enables so that tracking process becomes Smooth. So Let us peep in to see how to Track your lost device and what precautions you need to take.
Tracking Smartphones, laptops or Tablets Remotely
Tracking MAC, iPhone and iPad:The Find My Feature in your Apple Device helps you to track
your Stolen or lost Apple Device. You need to Enable this Feature.The
“Find My” features are part of Apple’s iCloud service.
To enable this feature, open the Settings app, tap iCloud, and set the
Find My iPhone or Find My iPad slider to On. You’ll need to enable this
setting on each device you want to track. If you haven’t set up iCloud
on your device, you’ll be prompted to set up an iCloud account here.
For a Mac, open the System Preferences window (Apple menu > System
Preferences), click the iCloud icon, and ensure the Find My Mac box is
checked. You’ll be prompted to set up iCloud here if you haven’t
already. Choose a Strong Password.
It is an amazing Feature by Apple, Whenever you put your iPhone or iPad
in Lost Mode, iCloud will do its work and will track the movements so
that you can see the History.
You can Remotely Lock a MAC, it will suddenly shut down it when the person tries to use it, he/she will have to enter the firmware
password to boot it. They will be restricted to boot any operating
system without the password. You can even Wipe all the data in your IOS
device or MAC if you want.
Tracking Android Smartphone & Tablet:
To track Android Smartphone or Tablet we will use Android Device
manager, which is an amazing feature to find your stolen smartphones.
You need to activate andriod device manager no your device. here is how
to do it..
Go to Settings > Then move to Security > Then move to Device Administrators > Android Device Manager > Activate it
After it’s enabled, you can visit the Google Play
website, click the gear icon, and select Android Device Manager. You’ll
see the location of the device on a map. Unlike Apple’s solution,
Android Device Manager will be wiped after a factory reset. You can Ring
the Device, Lock it or Erase all the data.
Thief can reset your device and you won’t be able to track it down.
Android Device Manager also won’t monitor a complete history of a lost
device’s movements. it only fetches the location of the device when you
sign in. It discards any location data when you sign out.
App to Track Android Smartphones:
Android Lost allows you to start tracking a device remotely, even if you
never set up tracking software ahead of time. I would Recommend you to download this
app in your android device. Other tracking solutions offer more
powerful features like the ability to take photos with the phone’s
camera or listen in on the phone’s surroundings with its microphone.
Tracking Windows Phone:
Microsoft's Windows Phones comes with a feature called Find My Phone.
You can Configure it by navigating to Settings > Find my phone.
Now you can visit Windows phone
Website and click Find my Phone which will be at the top right Corner.
If somene Factory Resets your phone then this feature will be disabled.
Tracking Windows Laptops:
To Track your Stolen Laptops. we will be using Softwares that you need
to install in your laptops. So that if in case you loose your laptop
then you can track it later.
I will share two Softwares called Prey and Lockittight.
Both of these and all other similar softwares work in a simlar way.
You Install any of these softwares, create account with then, so if your
laptop gets stolen you can login to thier website to check the location
of your laptop.
Prey offers this service for Windows, Mac and linux too. It has paid
plans but the free one will be good to just track the locations.
So you start with Downloading and Installing Prey Software, Once installed it will ask you to Create a New Account, So Create it.
Now you are almost Safe, if in future you loose your laptop. just Login to their website and set the slider from “OK” to “Missing”
Prey only tracks your device when it’s missing, so it isn’t constantly
tracking your laptop’s location. Be sure to also enable the Geo feature,
which uses your laptop’s internal GPS hardware or the names of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots to report its location.
