Dropping your cellphone is usually a nightmare, however fortunately there are some nice instruments to assist get better it. Samsung has provided a “Discover my Cell” app for some time now, and this week, it’s choosing up the useful new capability to trace down a misplaced cellphone even when it’s offline.
In an replace rolling out now, Samsung is enabling the power to find your cellphone (and, subsequently, watches or earbuds) after they lack an lively connection to the web. How? When this function is enabled, Samsung says different close by Galaxy units with the identical function enabled will “scan” for others that enables every cellphone to report on one other’s location when misplaced.
This variation arrives in model 7.1.08.0 of the Discover my Cell app that’s presently rolling out. It’s not enabled by default, however Samsung is sending push notifications to Galaxy house owners to tell them of the choice, as friend-of-the-site Max Weinbach spotted.
For Samsung Galaxy house owners, that is actually a useful choice. An lively web connection — similar to what’s utilized in Google’s “Discover my Machine” app and likewise utilized within the Samsung “Discover my Cell” app — should still be capable to extra reliably discover your gadget, however for tablets particularly, I may think about this new offline choice being an absolute life-saver.
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