How to find lost phone in India? 5 Steps to track lost phone

Lost your mobile phone? Here’s How to find lost phone. You can Track and Locate a lost mobile phone using Google accounts. Yes if you have somehow lost your phone or either your phone got stolen and you are worried about your personal data, then here is the expert guide to track lost mobile phones.

If a Mobile Phone is lost then there are various circumstances that decide that if you will be able to get your phone back or not, some of such circumstances are:

• Possibility
  1. If the Phone is stolen and is still on.
  2. If the phone is on and is connected to Network and you have access to the Google accounts linked with the stolen device.
  3. You have Installed some location tracking applications like “Find my Device“.
  4. You have the IEMI number of your phone.
  5. If the Mobile data and location are still on.
• No Possibility
  1. If the cellphone is turned off
  2. If the sim card has been replaced
  3. If the “Factory data reset” has been applied, and the data completely erased including the linked Googled accounts.
  4. If the IEMI number has been changed, yes this is possible by replacing the motherboard of the Smartphone.
  5. If the phone is broken and non-functional.

5 Steps to Track Lost Mobile Phone

If you have lost your mobile phone, then here is the trick to locate it by using your Google account. By using this trick you can ring your mobile phone, can see the battery percentage, can lock your phone with a new pin, and can erase the data permanently. To use this trick successfully your phone must have an Internet connection and also the device location should be on.

1. Visit “https://myaccount.google.com/” and make a login with the same Gmail account that is linked to your lost device.
2. Now in the Google accounts, Click on “Security“.
3. Now in the Security option, scroll down and click on the option “Google Prompt“.
4. Under Google Prompt option, your mobile phone linked with the Gmail account will be shown, just click on “Manage Devices“.
5. Now a new tab will be opened as “Your Devices” and here just select your device again and then you will be served with the new panel in which you can control your device data, and even can see its location precisely if the location is on as shown below:

Now you just need to click on “Find Device” and you will be taken to the “Google find my device” website where you can control your device remotely.

What to do if lost your phone?

As a responsible user of mobile phones, you must try to protect your personal information and data if you lost your phone. So if you lost possession of your mobile phone then you need to do the following things:

• According to Indian digital law, you must file an FIR at the nearest police station where you lost your mobile phone.
• Now visit a government-launched website for lost mobile phones called “CEIR Website“.
• Here on the CEIR website, you will find a button as “Block Stolen or Lost mobile“
• Now in a new window, you have to enter all the details like, what was your IEMI number, What was the model of the mobile phone, on which date it was lost, and much more. Just fill in all the information correctly and then you have to submit a copy of an FIR.
• Now CIER will do the rest. It will blacklist your mobile phone so that no one will buy it, and it will also help you to track your mobile phone. After reporting a lost phone on this website you can also the status of your complaint as shown below:

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How to find lost phone?

You cannot find a lost with surety but there may be a narrow chance to find and locate your lost phone by yourself. To find a lost phone there may be certain circumstances which will decide if you will be getting your phone back.

• If you have enabled contact information on the lock screen of the phone, then it’s up to the person who has your phone, he may return it if has good intentions.
• You may just make a call and ask for your cell phone if someone has found it and if the network is available with a sim card inserted in it.
• If you lost Your phone then you can also file a legal complaint on the Government website “”
• In case you lost your phone, according to Indian Law you must do an FIR at the nearest police station and ask the help of local police to assist you in locating your phone through the cyber crime branch.
• If you are lucky, and your device is connected to an Internet connection then you can easily track your phone using Google accounts. Even you can Delete your data and lock your mobile phone using Google accounts.

Locate and Track lost Samsung Phone

Unlike other Android phones, Samsung offers you something special. If you are the owner of a Samsung mobile phone, then you can track your Mobile phone using both “Online and Offline mode”.

If you have lost your Samsung mobile phone in less than 15 meters and your phone is connected to your Samsung smartwatch, then you can easily track and locate your Samsung phone using “Samsung wearables” even you can track a lost Samsung mobile phone within 15 meters which do not have any Internet connection using “Samsung Nearby Devices“.

In order to locate a lost Samsung mobile phone in offline mode the device must have “Active wifi”. If the lost Samsung phones wifi is on, then you can easily track it by using a “scan nearby devices”.

How to Lock and Erase Data of Your Stolen Mobile Phone?

So the best way to lock and permanently delete your private data in case you lost your mobile phone is to use a trusted Platform called “Find My Device“. Using Find my device, you can do various functions like Ring your phone, Lock your Phone, Delete your phone data permanently, and even you can track the last and latest Geographical location of your mobile phone.

Here is how to Lock and Erase data of your lost Phone:

1. Step– For God’s sake, you have Installed “Find My Device” application and have linked it with your Google account on your mobile phone before it was lost. You may also enable “Find My Device” in your phone settings without Installing the application.
2. Step– So if you have an active “Find My Device” feature on your mobile phone before it was lost, and is still connected to the Internet then you can Erase and Lock your phone data by visiting “https://www.google.com/android/find/“.
3. Step– Now after visiting the “Google Android Find website” from the above link, just make a login with the same email address which is linked to your lost phone.
4. After making a login with the same email account, you will get a dashboard for Tracking location, Deleting your data, and locking your phone with a new pin as shown below:

So as you can see, you can even make your lost mobile phone ring with a remote network, even you can also see the Google Maps location of your mobile phone if the device location is turned on.

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How to find Lost iphone?

Just like an Android Phone, Apple iPhone also has a feature called “Find My iPhone“. You will need to follow the same above steps.

1. Visit “Find my iPhone website”, and make a login using your “iCloud account”.
2. Now here you have to select the device which you want to track.
3. Now once you selected any of the listed devices in your iCloud account, it will show you the following options: Play sound, Directions, Notify when found, Mark as lost, and Erase this Device.
4. Now just activate “Mark as lost”.
5. Now you can track your iPhone if the mobile data and the location are on. The best part of the iPhone is that it provides you to send contact information to the lock screen which will be shown if your device has an active internet connection, just type an emotional request so that the person having it may return it back.

Legal Procedure to File a Complaint for the stolen phone in India

Step 1– In India, if you lost your mobile phone, then you must do FIR at your nearest police station. After an FIR, you have to contact some local newspaper or news publishing agency and ask them to publish a small piece of news about your stolen phone in their news column.

Step 2– So now you can ask your nearest police station to put your mobile phone on surveillance. For this, you will need an FIR copy and a Photo-state of the newspaper in which you have published the news of your phone theft.

Step 3- After these all processes, you must try to locate your phone on your own end also, and you should also file a complaint of the stolen phone on the “CIER website”.