Although it looks a little intrusive on privacy, knowing the whereabouts or tracking the location of people we love is necessary. The goal is to anticipate things that are not desirable. So that when something bad happens, relatives know of its existence.
It's just that, often some people are still confused about how to do it. Well on this occasion, we will share simple steps that can be done.
Quoted from various sources and based on the experience of trying it directly, Friday (28/1/2022), here are at least easy ways so you can track someone's location.
4 Ways to Track Your Loved One's Location
How to track cell phone location via Gmail
To confirm the existence of the person, one way is to use the email they use. But make sure you know both the address and password. Here are the details.
Log in to your Gmail account via your laptop or Personal Computer (PC).
Click the nine dots icon in the top right corner between your profile photo and Images.
Select the Accounts menu.
Continue to visit the Security menu and scroll down.
In the Your Device section, please press Find a Lost Device.
Then Google Maps will show the whereabouts of the person's cellphone.
How to Track Location Via Google Maps
Then you can go through Google Maps. More or less the way is not as difficult as using Gmail. Let's see.
Open the Google Maps app.
Then go to Settings by clicking on the profile photo at the top right.
Then select Location Sharing.
Next, specify how long you want to share Real Time Location. Is it for hours or until the smartphone that is used runs out of battery.
Select want to share to email or WhatsApp.
The next step, the location can be observed.
How to Track Location Via WhatsApp (WA)
This is the easiest way to do it. Because as is known, every community must have a WA account. So how do you find out where other people are in real time?
Enter the WA application.
Select the contact you want him or her to share their location with.
If you want to know the location of the other person, ask him to send it via the Attach feature.
Click the logo in the chat column. Select Location.
Then click Share Live Location. Decide how long you want to share. For your own choice, namely 15 minutes, 1 hour and 8 hours.
The final step is simply send.
How to Track Location Via Application
The last tip is to download an application called Find My Device. This software itself has been used by more than 100 million users. Where the rating is quite good, which is 4.3/5 out of a total of 1 million reviews.
Enter the Find My Device application.
Login with the Gmail account, which is used on the device you want to track its location.
Then this software will automatically display the current location.
You can activate the Voicemail feature, if you want to ring the cellphone in question.