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Emergency Mode

Lost or stolen Android phone

Your Android phone is missing. Lock it, protect the accounts it can reach, then decide about the device.

What this assumes

  • You are using a different device: a computer, a tablet, or someone else's phone.
  • You have internet access on that other device.

Do these first

Containment. Minutes matter here and nothing else does.

  1. Open Find My Device from another device and choose Secure device, which locks the phone and lets you add a message. Official page
  2. Add a contact number that is not the missing phone.
  3. Call your carrier and ask them to suspend the line.
  4. Change your Google Account password from the other device.
  5. Change your primary email password if it is different, then any financial account you can reach.

Afterwards

When the immediate situation is over, a plan is what keeps it from happening the same way twice. That needs an account; this page never will.

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