A phone lost may be disaster for your personal data. In order to protect your private data after your phone is stolen, you should take some preventive measures. Remote deletion may be the only remedy to secure your data.
But if you want to delete your data at the first time you have lost your phone, you should enable the settings before that.
Check your Android phone to know if this function has been enabled.
Tap Google settings—security—Android Device manager, switch on the settings of remote lock and erase.
Enable the setting of Remotely Locate This Device to locate your device.
The remote eraser cannot delete your data on SD card, so you’d better do not store your private or important data on there. You can encrypt your SD card to secure your data.
However, if your lost device is not connected to the network, the Android Device Manager cannot locate your phone.
How can I remotely delete my data on Android phone?
Nevertheless, you should form a good habit of regular data backup to avoid the accident data loss due to deletion or a stolen phone.
Once you found your phone was lost, you should take measures as soon as possible.
First, you should log in the Android Device Manager at the first time to locate your lost device. Sometimes, you may cannot locate your phone, but you can find location on map if your phone is ins service. Whenever your lost phone is connected to the network, the Android Device Manger will report the location of your phone.
Once it locate your phone, then you can erase your data from your phone.
Choose the erase option to wipe all your data on your phone. It will delete all your data on your phone but it cannot wipe the data on your SD card.
Use Google Maps to track your phone
If the Android Device Manager cannot locate your phone, you can try the Google Maps to track your phones locations.
How to recover deleted files from Android?
If you have accidentally lost your files on your Android phone SD card, you can try a data recovery software. Hdata recovery software can easily recover your deleted files from SD card in several steps.
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