How to find a lost or stolen Samsung Galaxy S5, S6 or S7 mobile

We offer you the definitive solution to find your Samsung Galaxy smartphone if you have lost it or it has been stolen with Find my Mobile

Editorial Staff
August 5, 2018
Mobiles

Our cell phones or smartphones have become a fundamental tool in our daily lives, whether for work and business tasks or leisure purposes, such as taking photos or capturing videos, consult our social networks, surfing the Internet or talk to our family or friends through instant messaging apps like WhatsApp, among many other benefits. But they are also devices that we can lose or forget easily and, above all, one of the favorite targets of thieves, especially in busy or tourist areas. And one of the most affected brands is none other than Samsung, since its market penetration is really high with millions of smartphones of the most varied ranges all over the world; Luckily we have its native application Find My Mobile to find our lost or stolen mobile. Therefore, we offer you a guide to using the Samsung app to find our mobile device, compatible with a wide range of brand smartphones such as Galaxy S5, S6, S7, J1, J3, J5, J7, A3, A5 and many others.

How to use Find My Mobile to find your phone

How to use Find My Mobile to find your phone

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How to find our lost or stolen Samsung smartphone

The first thing we must do is create our own Samsung Mobile account, which will allow us to keep our mobile updated day by day with maximum security and with the guarantee that we will be able to find our terminal in case of losing it or suffering theft. And thanks to the Find my Mobile app we can locate our mobile even if it is turned off or if the SIM card has been removed, since Samsung's GPS works independently of the internet connection and always in the background. For Activate and use Find my Mobile from Samsung follow the next steps:

Go to Settings – Lock screen/Security – Find my Mobile.
The first time you use the service you must Add account through the corresponding option.
We can create a Find my Mobile account with Create with Google ID or Create account.
It is best to use your own Google account to have everything focused on a single account.

Now you only need to make the following settings to be able to track your lost or stolen mobile.

Google location service

Through this option we can locate our terminal using geolocation coordinates if it has been lost or stolen; It is very important to activate this option.

Reactivation lock

Another option that is very important to be activated, since will ask for a code to the person who may have stolen our terminal to use it; Without that code (which only we will know) it will be impossible to use that smartphone.

Remote controls

Finally, it is essential to have the option activated Remote controls from our mobile phone, which will allow us to control our terminal remotely through our Samsung account.

How to locate our lost or stolen smartphone

If unfortunately we find ourselves in this situation, and if we have activated the options of the Samsung Find my Mobile app, we can now proceed to search of our lost or stolen smartphone. To do this, we must access the following internet address.

https://findmymobile.samsung.com/

If we already have our account activated, we will only have to click on the icon Log in. Automatically, the system will locate our terminal through a map in the purest style Google Maps, with the exact location of its position using coordinates. Additionally, we can activate the option Call my device so that our terminal starts ringing at full volume so that we can locate it in person, even if it is silent.

We leave you with the complete list of Samsung terminals compatible with Find my Mobile:

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