

Got a Google speaker (Google Home, Nest Mini)? Then you can show off with a hands-free way to find lost phones. Alternatively, you can use the Find My Device app installed on another Android. Even if your phone is on silent, it’ll ring. Sign in to your Google account, select Make it ring. When your physical search for your lost Android has proven fruitless, just go to /find. Now you’re ready to vanquish the most nefarious couch cushion intent on hiding your phone from you. You can get instructions on how to do those things here. Is your Android phone next to you right now? Good.

And while Find my iPhone may have come first, most newer Android phones have this feature as well. It’s possible thanks to the nifty option of making your lost phone ring, even if the ringer is turned off or it’s in silent mode. However, it comes as news to some of us that this same feature can be used to find your phone that’s hiding somewhere in the house. Many of you will be familiar with the ability to track a phone that’s in another geographic area, whether it’s been lost or you’re keeping tabs on your kids. Here are the answers to that unfortunately popular question: “How do I call my phone I’ve lost at home– even if it’s on silent and I don’t have another phone?” Built-in “Find My Phone” feature Thankfully, there are easy ways to find your phone even if the ringer is off or the battery is dead. I know you’re here phone, just be cool and show up. How annoying is it when you’ve lost your phone somewhere in the house? It’s obviously far preferable than having lost it lost it somewhere else, but dang, is it ever infuriating.
