How to find your lost phone thats on silent mode: Heres a guide

Worried about your lost phone? Worse, it’s on silent mode. Don’t fret. There’s a way to find lost phone that’s on silent mode or set on vibration. Both Android and iOS have a feature that lets users find their lost smartphone by triggering a sound even if the phones are on silent or vibration mode. Also Read: How to track your lost Android phone and securely erase data

Find lost Android phone that’s on silent mode

The pre-requisite to locate your Android phone is that you should have enabled Find My Device on your Android phone, which should be turned on by default if you have logged in to your Google account on the phone. Also Read: How to turn on Find My Device to locate offline/dead Android phone

Step 1: Head to Google Device Manager by visiting android.com/devicemanager on your phone or laptop/computer through a browser like Chrome or any other.

Step 2: You should see all your devices listed on the website. Tap on the lost Android phone.

Step 3: Tap on Play sound.

That’s how you can find a lost Android phone that’s not on the ringer mode.

Find lost iPhone that’s on silent mode

If you are an iPhone user, you can use another Apple device to find your lost iPhone. Whether it be an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, you can trace your lost phone that is set to silent mode easily. Those who do not have any other Apple device can still trace their iPhones through the browser. Follow the steps below.

The prerequisite for this is that you need to have enabled the Find My iPhone feature on your iPhone. You can do that by heading to Settings > Apple Account > Find My > enable all settings, including Find My network and Send Last Location for better traceability.

Step 1: Open the Find My app on your iPhone or other Apple devices. Or, head to iCloud.com and select Find My iPhone.

Step 2: Tap on Devices.

Step 3: You should now see all the available devices. Tap on the lost iPhone.

Step 4: Now, tap on Play Sound. Once you tap on Play Sound a recurring sound will play on your iPhone even though it’s on mute or vibration mode.

That’s how you can easily locate your lost iPhone even if it’s not on the ringer mode.

Other than this, you can even factory reset your Android phone remotely using the Find My Device feature. On iPhone, you can let a dead iPhone send its last location. You can follow the above steps to do both things as they are in the same settings in Find My Device/Find My.