If your smartphone will be connected to the Internet and GPS, you can easily find it on a map (in the menu, you can choose between Google Maps and BaiDu). This will take you to the menu where you have to click on the rightmost label 'Find device'. Warning: this site in Chinese, but you can enable automatic translation in your browser - everything will be much clearer.

Now, if something happens, you must go to the site i.mi.com and login to your Mi account. Go to Settings> Mi Account>Mi Cloud and at the bottom of the menu, activate location function using the slider.

To do this you need to go to Mi account (not to be confused with a Google account) if you do not have it, now is the best time to take care of its creation, it is a useful thing. An active internet connection - such as what’s used in Google’s “Find my Device” app and also utilized in the Samsung “Find my Mobile” app - may still be able to more reliably find your device, but for tablets especially, I could imagine this new offline option being an absolute life-saver.Activate location through the Mi Cloud on your Mi smartphone It’s not enabled by default, but Samsung is sending push notifications to Galaxy owners to inform them of the option, as friend-of-the-site Max Weinbach spotted.įor Samsung Galaxy owners, this is certainly a helpful option. This change arrives in version 7.1.08.0 of the Find my Mobile app that is currently rolling out. How? When this feature is enabled, Samsung says other nearby Galaxy devices with the same feature enabled will “scan” for others that allows each phone to report on another’s location when lost. In an update rolling out now, Samsung is enabling the ability to locate your phone (and, subsequently, watches or earbuds) when they lack an active connection to the internet. Samsung has offered a “Find my Mobile” app for a while now, and this week, it’s picking up the handy new ability to track down a lost phone even if it’s offline. Losing your phone can be a nightmare, but thankfully there are some great tools to help recover it.

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