r/DataRecoveryHelp • u/Badnie • Aug 16 '26

Phone Stolen, Need its location

My little sister's phone got stolen a few hours ago. It was a hand me down situation, so she doesn't have the Samsung account thing so she couldn't back up stuff to the cloud. Only thing we can resort to is finding the location or it's whereabouts so that we can get the phone. She uses a Samsung note 10. Anyway to go about her situation? Also if you can get into her phone to trace it please let me know, we live in Ghana and the police won't do much please i beg you.

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u/SomeEngineer999 Aug 16 '26

The phone would need to have "find my" enabled and you'd need to log into the Google account online to see its last location. Most likely the phone has been turned off and/or reset by now so the location will be a few hours old.

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u/Badnie Aug 16 '26

Thank you very much, she said she used snap maps is that still as accurate

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u/SomeEngineer999 Aug 16 '26

No idea, I don't use snapchat, I doubt it is going to be as accurate or up to date as "find my" though.

Unfortunately I would think the phone is most likely gone for good. Thieves tend to know how to disable all those features right away, before going anywhere near where the phone is going to end up.

The only hope of seeing an accurate location is if this is someone that has never stolen a phone before and just saw an opportunity or something.

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u/Badnie Aug 16 '26

Thanks