Google has updated their service My account by adding the possibility to anyone with an Apple device to use its services to locate stolen iPhone or a lost iPad, just as you do now with any Android device.
Mountain View are one step further in his career with Apple and get into the Pocket to its users to try to remove them from your Apple ID to take them to my Google account Google service, to remember has been running a year and to celebrate this have been to increase their functions. Therefore, we can now register an iPhone on the account that you have Google, where all its services such as Google Drive or Gmail are centralized.
But the most interesting thing is that now, if we want to find a stolen iPhone, we only have to do a search, with the active account, putting “I’ve lost my phone”. We will automatically make a call to the team, make it sound volume, lock it or make showing on display a phone number by appealing to the goodwill of whom have found it.
An alternative to the service to find a stolen iPhone from Apple
That is, from now on, the great rival of the service “Find my iPhone” that Apple has underway already for several years and that, in essence, it offers the same functionality through iCloud. It is, therefore, a good attempt to Google for the favor of iPhone users on what really matters – and is not using Android, but their services-.
New features in Google my account
This novelty is in addition to the other news that we find in the Google service in which we can now do to show us all our information saying “Ok Google, show me My Google Account”. Yes, put it in English because it is not yet active, but it will be, the possibility of asking this in Spanish. Also, although this is a promise, it seems that it will be possible to enter directly into our account when we write our name in the Google search box.
These functions are also available for iOS users, on the other hand, that Yes, not natively in the system as in Android but through the Google application for the Apple Terminal.
As we see, it is not but one more twist in this game of cat and mouse that both companies have, also plays that Microsoft let us not forget, and which reveals that at the end it gives equal platform where you are – by banal “wars of pro pro Android vs. iPhone”, because, in the end, all that want all are our data and we use their services , the device is the least do not you agree?
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