There are many ways to track a cell phone and, both if you are simply looking for the location of the lost smartphone, and if you want to check where a person is, with or without his authorization. For smartphones, depending on the type (Android, Samsung, iPhone and Windows Phone), there are functions and applications that can track your phone at all times, designed above all to protect yourself from theft and to help us when you lose your mobile phone.
The main reason why you want to track down your cell phone is to find it if it has been lost or stolen .
There are many applications to track your phone or that work as an anti-theft device, for both Android and iPhone.
Often, however, one realizes their existence only when it is too late, after having lost the phone.
Track down Android Phone
Unlike the iPhone, on Android smartphones there are many ways to track down a mobile phone.
The best option is to configure Find My Android in advance, before losing your phone.
With the Find My Android function already explained in detail in another article, you can make the phone ring remotely, locate it on the map or delete its memory completely in case it is now not recoverable.
In the event that, however, the phone is lost without having configured an anti-theft app or Device Manager in the Google settings, there is still hope thanks to an ingenious application.
For all Android smartphones you can install Android Lost, which allows you to locate the lost mobile phone, even via SMS, without the need for the internet to be active.
You can, via SMS, also activate the GPS for precise location, ring the phone, clear the memory, activate the internet connection and many other commands on the androidlost.com website.
The service allows you to install the app remotely and, using your computer, to connect to your mobile phone using the same Gmail or Google account.
From androidlost.com, you can then locate or find the phone and configure the mobile number that can control the app via SMS.
All this without absolutely having to configure the app on the mobile phone to be located and tracked.
Considering that the phone can be locked on login and that even changing SIM, Android remains registered to the same Google account, the tracking system of the lost phone works really well.
An Android phone can also be tracked via Google Maps, if the Android function relating to saving the history of Google Maps locations has been activated.
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Track down Samsung phone
If your phone has Internet access and if you have a Samsung registered account, you can use its "Find device" app to track down the phone.
To activate this function, go to Settings> Accounts and sync> Add account> Samsung account .
In the Position section, you can then activate remote control.
For more details, refer to the official page on the Samsung website.
You have done? Impressive. Go and log on to the Find My Mobile website. Check the left sidebar and make sure the device is connected to your account. Now, all you have to do is select 'Locate your device' in the sidebar and click on the locate button. If the device is online and remote controls are enabled, you should see its approximate location. Find my mobile also allows you to do other things, such as locking the device, letting it ring with a message and erasing its data.
Track down iPhone
The best way to track down the iPhone is the Find My iPhone feature which is turned on by default.
The application allows you to find and locate the position of the phone on the map from a computer or another iPhone.
The app allows you to send a ring, send an SMS from the phone with the coordinates detected or delete the contents of the memory.
All the details on this application are available in the guide on how to find the lost or stolen iPhone .
Track Windows Phone (Lumia)
The new Lumia and Windows Phone smartphones have their included function to locate and track down the lost or stolen phone.
The monitoring service should already be active and can be verified in the settings.
In addition to the possibility of location via SMS, you can also enable periodic saving of the position to locate the Lumia smartphone even if it is turned off.
On this page the complete guide to the Find My Windows phone service .
If you want to locate another person's smartphone, there are two possibilities.
If you have permission, we have seen, in another article, the Apps to send the position from your mobile phone or be followed in real time, very useful in the case of an appointment with friends or to follow the movements of your children.
For Android only, we have also seen the secret agent apps to spy, track locations, messages and more, which can be installed and hidden on the phone of those who want to control.
In this regard, we have also seen how it is possible to use a "parental control" app to control or spy on another's phone .
