By Admin 
Nowadays your phone is not just for calls or messages but it also contains your bank details, personal photos and many important documents. Therefore, if the phone is lost or stolen, it is not just like losing a device but also becomes a big problem related to privacy and money.
If something like this happens to you too, don’t panic. Because now you can track and block your phone even sitting at home. For this, the government has given an official portal and some options. In such a situation, let us tell you today how if your phone is lost or stolen, you can track and block it while sitting at home.
First file an FIR
In case of phone loss or theft, first of all you should lodge a complaint with the police. You can file an FIR by going to your nearest police station or can also file a complaint online. After registering the FIR, you will get a complaint number. This number is useful while registering a complaint on the CEIR portal.
Block and track phone from CEIR
- Central Government’s Central Equipment Identity Register portal i.e. Sanchar Sathi has been created to block and track your lost phone or stolen phone.
- In such a situation, to track the phone with the help of Sancharsaathi, first of all open the sancharsaathi.gov.in website and register by entering your name, mobile, email and password.
- After login, select Find Stolen/Lost Device or Block Your Lost/Stolen Mobile option.
- After this upload the IMEI number of the phone, multi model and purchase invoice.
- Now select the date, place and concerned police station of losing your phone. Also upload the FIR number and copy of the FIR.
- Now upload your name, address and identity card and submit the form and tick the declaration.
- After filing the complaint, your phone will be blocked in CEIR and put on tracking. If the call is received, you are informed. Till now, more than 10 lakh lost or stolen phones have been found.
Google’s Find My Device and Google Maps will also be useful
If your phone was signed in with a Google account and the internet was on, Google’s free tool Find My Device can show the last known address of the phone. With this you can remotely ring, lock or erase data from the phone. For this, login to your Google account on any browser or other phone and view the device information. Whereas if location history was on on the phone, then the last location of that day can be found in the timeline of Google Maps. For this, open the timeline, select that date and see the last location.
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