Losing a phone can be an absolute nightmare. And worse, when you are scared that someone might get his hands on the phone and your personal information. So, the best thing to do if you have lost your Nexus 6P is to erase all of its contents. So even if someone finds it, we won’t be able to get into your stuff. It will also erase credit card and Android Pay information from your phone. Let’s move on to how to erase lost Nexus 6P data.
I will use Find My Device to help you erase all the data inside your lost Nexus 6P. It is an excellent service introduced by Google, which allows you to use several features on your phone remotely. A brief introduction to its features is as below:
- Erase: If you are sure that you will never get your hands on your phone, you can erase all the data present inside it.
- Locate: If you have lost your phone and want to locate it, use this feature. It will display the location of your phone on Google Maps if it is connected to the internet. Otherwise, you will see its last time online, including the date.
- Ring: Even if your phone is on silent, you can make it ring at maximum volume by using this feature. This service is very helpful if you have lost your phone somewhere in the car, office, or home and can’t find it, although you are sure that it’s somewhere around.
- Lock: If you have lost your phone and are currently trying to locate it, you are sure that you might get it back somehow. The best solution until then is to use this feature and lock your phone with a new passcode that you will provide on your PC. You can also display a message along with your contact number on your lost Nexus 6P remotely, like “This phone is stolen. Kindly contact this number to return it.”
It is always great to have a backup of pictures and videos on Google Photos and a backup of contacts and calendars on a Gmail account. So even if you lost your phone and erased the Nexus 6P data. You will still have all the pictures, videos, notes, and contacts.
Erase Lost Nexus 6P Remotely.
Now, let us move on to how you can erase lost Nexus 6P remotely. As I said, we will use the Find My Device for this. For this guide, you must have the same Gmail address you used on your phone to sign in to the Google Play Store or Gmail. The same email address you enter when you use your phone for the first time. It is usually the same one used in the Google Play Store.
Note: You can also use Find my Device on any other Android phone by downloading the application from the Google Play Store.
- First of all. Open the Find My Device website on your PC or some other phone.
- Now, use your Gmail/Google account details to log in.
- Once logged in, you will see your phone’s location on Google Maps. If your phone is offline, you will see the date and time when it was last online.
- You will see three options underneath it. To delete all the data present inside your Nexus 6P remotely. Click on Erase.
Now, you will see a warning like the one above. Click on Erase.
All the data inside your Nexus 6P will be erased now, so you don’t have to worry if it gets into the wrong hands. If you still have any confusion or issues, drop a comment below. I will get back to you as soon as possible. Losing your phone is a significant loss, but someone misusing your personal information can result in gruesome consequences. So, it is better to erase lost Nexus 6P data than to take chances.
