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Find My Device: How Android’s service can manage a missing phone

Losing your phone is one of the most stressful predicaments of modern-day life. We’ve all been there: You pat your pocket, swiftly scan every surface in sight – then suddenly feel your heart drop at the realization that your Android device and all of its contents are no longer in your control. There’s certainly no scenario in which losing your phone is a good thing. But with the advanced security tools now built into Android on the operating system level, finding and managing a missing device is often – well, quite manageable. And you don’t need any third-party software

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