Use Android Device Manager's Guest Mode To Find Your Friend's Phone

Android: If you're not using the Android Device Manager to help find your lost phone, we highly recommend it. What happens when you actually lose your phone, though? Thanks to a guest mode in the Android app, you can use your friend's phone to find your own.

The Android Device Manager app allows you to quickly locate, lock, or wipe your other devices. However, you can also use the guest mode to allow someone else to quickly log in and find their device. This makes it much easier to help a friend find their phone, as the only alternative is to log in to their own account from a laptop, which may not be as easily accessible. In any case, if you're not using ADM to track your phone in case of an emergency, it's highly recommended you set it up .

Google has historically left the responsibility of device protection to third parties. Over the last year, however, the company has introduced and beefed up the Android Device Managerm which allows you to remotely locate, lock, wipe, or ring the device. It's not a perfect security system, but it's the minimum everyone should have.

You don't actually have to install anything on an Android device just to track it. You can enable it in your Google settings here. However, if you have multiple Android devices, you can install the Device Manager app to locate one from the other. For example, if you have your phone on you, but can't find your tablet, you can use ADM to ring your tablet, even if it's on silent.