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Locate yours devices and loved one’s devices using Samsung Find

Samsung Galaxy devices have many original equipment manufacturer apps which provide several unique experiences exclusive for Samsung users. In this age fast internet and smart phone age we can effortlessly track live location of family member by installing Samsung Find from either Google Play Store or Samsung App store. In another way from computer web browser you can locate yours lost Samsung phone by logging into Samsung account.

First you have to install Samsung Find app on your device as well as on yours family smartphones. Login with Samsung Find app with Samsung Account. Samsung Find has website you can browse location of yours device through computer. In the settings of Samsung App, you have to allow your device to be shared to Samsung Find website. You have option to encrypt offline location if you have privacy issues. If you enable this then location information sent to Samsung servers can be encrypted to and fro from it. It is an optional option, you can enable or disable it as per user’s wishes.

Then you will have to choose navigation app, most of times it can be Google Maps, In the setting from button of Samsung Find touch people to add other family members and to see their live location within Samsung Find app. Yours family members should have Samsung Galaxy devices and Samsung Find installed on it. From below settings of Samsung Find touch people and then click on the plus icon and then from the list of phone numbers choose the number associated with family members and they should have Samsung Galaxy devices, active internet connections and Samsung Find app installed. Then choose the phone number of yours family members and then invite family members to allow location access to Samsung Find.

Then, yours family members should also allow you share location all the time. In this way you can see location of yours family members in the people segment of Samsung Find app. There is another option in settings which is items setting which is related with Samsung smart things app, you can find yours devices such as Samsung TVs, Samsung washing machines and other hardware devices right from yours phone and in this way you can see yours devices from yours screen of phone. In order to add Samsung items which can work like Apple tags and you can find these devices right from yours phone.

You can use Google Map’s location sharing information in order to find location of yours family members easily. But there is a cache which is that all devices need to be stay online, With Samsung Find and from its settings if you enable offline finding then you can find location of yours family members even if they are offline. It is a very important property and sometimes yours family members when they are outside and by mistake switch of data connection on their phone or in a location where there is absolutely no data connectivity then location sharing of Google Maps failed to work but if offline finding is enabled on Samsung Find app then you can see the live location of family members in Samsung App even if you are or yours family mebers is offline.

Due to offline finding feature and the app is from Samsung then its reliability increases more and this feature is only available with this app even not in Google Maps speaks a lot about this. Even when your phone is lost or stolen Samsung app can detect phones’ location when its last turned off. You can even remotely lock Samsung Pay and other important Samsung apps. You can erase yours lost phone’s data remotely so that the thief cannot look for yours important data stored on yours device.

How to edit your location at Google

From time to time in this internet arena there are many problems occur and in this world of internet we find some newer problems which normally in these circumstances unable to find out. Now, every business wants to have their location correctly. Most of time places of prominence and higher religious values do not present correctly on Google Maps due to security reasons. So, if yours working property nearer to such important place then showing exact location on Google Maps becomes difficult.

If you are working with hotel and hospitality industries then exact location showing on Google Maps becomes absolutely essential as almost all of customers reach to these destinations through Google Maps or Apple Maps. Think of a situation. Yours working property located nearer to important religious presence such as Lord Jagannath Temple of Puri. So nearby areas remains blurred due to security reasons. Then it becomes difficult to showcase the exact location of Hotel as most of these areas will not be found inside Google Maps for obvious security reasons.

The second problem of pin pointing exact location of a place on Google Maps is that is there is two similar landmarks which are there in and around particular place. Here is the example that will make things to understand clearer. Hotel Shreehari Grand is the group of Hotels from Hotels Shreehari. Hotel Shreehari is located in front of sea beach and Hotel Shreehari Grand located within meters from M Bazar. At Puri there are two M Bazar, one is located in and around Marchikot square and the other is located in and around Badashankh area.

If we provide Hotel ShreehariGrand nearer to M Bazar then it takes the position that it is situated at Badashankh in stead of original location of nearer to Marchikot. So, customers would find it hard to reach at Hotel as the exact location remains unknown for them and this article meant for such entrepreneurs who wants to correct their business locations but still they are finding it difficult to manage locations inside Google. Normally many would feel that by going through Maps app and then logging into Google Account can correct them the location of website but in realty it is not the right procedure to do it. 

This article is meant to solve this problems for entrepreneurs who are dealing with this problem and now let us discuss how to deal with it step by step. 

  1. Open yours favourite web browser.
  2. In its search box put Google Business Profile
  3. .Sign in and then create yours organisation’s Business Profile account.
  4. After it is done and authorised by Google, for yourslocations it might take one month as Google will send you OTP through mail and then you need to put it inside yours account to authenticate then login to yours Google Business Profile account.
  5. Now login to Google Business profile and click Manage in its top right hand side corner. 
  6. You will now reach to Home tab of Google Business Profile.
  7. Scroll down and reach to Your Business Profile on Google
  8. Click on View on Maps
  9. Then move the Pin of Maps to the exact location where yours Hotel or property is situated. 
  10. Scroll the mouse further to zoom into yours location so that it matches to exact location.
  11. Then save and return to Google Business Profile settings.
  12. The dashboard would ask that some one has edited yours location and would you like to update it.
  13. Click yes and update it and it is done. 
  14. Now within seconds location of yours property is now corrected in Google Maps.

Disenable Geo location feature in Opera

Definitely ,my favorite web browser is for the last four years continuously and without any scintilla of doubt is Opera.It is primarily because of its speed,stability that is the better way to better speed,smart automatic turbo speed mode and more now compatibility with most of WebPages and with lots of add-ons like Opera unite, opera links to name a few.


Now to the topic of the heading of this article, how to disenable geo location feature in Opera, first we have to know what is Geo location as the name suggests all that is the geographic location of the user.If this feature is enabled on web browser as it is most of times automatically enabled then any website you surf and if that website is asking for yours physical location then the browser which have Geo location enabled , will send the user’s geo location requesting for the same to the web site you visited.

So, it can be said of a privacy concern so the question now is how to get rid of geo location feature of browsers and to day we will know about Opera and will learn how to disenable the geo location feature in Opera.

  • Disable Geo location feature in Opera:
  • Start Opera browser. Type opera:config in the address bar and Enter .
  • You now reach at Preferences Editor, type geo location in the search box of Preferences Editor.
  • Now you will see Geo location option in Preferences Editor.
  • Click to uncheck” Enable Geolocation” option, if confused observe the screenshot above.
  • Then click save button and you are done.Now you can make carefree web browsing without worrying about yours physical location being circulated to websites you are visiting and of course to those websites which request for this information.