If you have ever lost a smartphone or tablet, you know exactly how terrible it feels. Not only did you lose up to $900 on your device, but you also lost your pictures, videos, contacts and private information like access to your finances. While Androids had access to Google’s “Find My Device” feature for many years, you might not know about Samsung’s service called “Find my Mobile.” It might seem like a redundancy to have this feature available on its Galaxy devices, but Samsung took it a step further and enabled many more features that Google does not have in its service.
For starters there are the basics: locating your lost phone is the first and most important feature found to Find my Mobile. It can locate any one of your Samsung devices that you have registered to your Samsung account. If your device is still powered on, you can make it ring, lock the display and wipe it before anyone can access your data.
Where Samsung’s Find my Mobile service goes beyond Android’s equalization, is with these added features:
- Lock Power Off – it prevents anyone from powering down your phone so you can keep track of it
- Power meter – you can keep track of how much battery power remains on your device
- Enable remote pin lock
- Lock Samsung Pay and suspend your associated credit cards
- Completely wipe Samsung pay
- Reset your device – delete all internal and external memory
- Remote extend battery life
- Monitor the most recent 50 log items to see what has been done on your phone
- Set Guardians – You can register a person as your guardian who can control your device remotely
- Unlock your device – You can unlock all secure locks remotely when you forget your screen unlock PIN, password or pattern etc
- SIM alert – your device will also let you know if the SIM has been changed.
- View last location of your device before it was powered down
To enable all of these features for Samsung’s Find my Mobile on your Samsung Galaxy S8, S8+ and Note 8 go to your Settings app. Click on Lock Screen and Security followed by Find My Mobile.
Click on the toggles for Remote Controls, Google Location Service, and Send Last Location to take advantage of all of the features listed above. You never know when you might misplace or lose your phone and enabling these services will save you a lot of headache in the case of this event.
To learn more about Find my Mobile, head on over to the website here.