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Turn On or Off the Option to Remotely Locate an HTC One M8

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you how to turn On and Off the option to be able to remotely locate and HTC One M8.

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To begin, turn the phone On by pressing the power button located on the top of the phone
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Once the phone has been activated, we will see the lock screen; to unlock the phone, swipe the screen upwards
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Once the phone has been unlocked, we will see the home screen and at the bottom, we will see these icons
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It is one of these icons that we now need to access as we need to open up the applications folder.
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To open the applications folder, we need to press this icon located at the bottom center of the home screen
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The icon is a grid made of white dots.

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In this folder, we now need to find the Google Settings application
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Mine is located right here. We can see that there is a gray cog with the Google "g" inside and underneath, it says "Google Settings". Your Google Settings application may be in a different position on this folder. Therefore, you will need to find it and press down on it to enter the application.
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We can see that we have a menu of all the different settings and we need to scroll down to the bottom and press on the word "Security"
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We are looking for the "Remotely locate this device", "Show device location on Android Device Manger"
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Currently this option is activated because the icon on the right is turquoise which means that it is On. We can remotely locate this device with the Android Device Manager.
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If we want to turn this option off and not be able to remotely locate the device, press down on the icon until it is gray
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That means that it has been deactivated. However, if we do want to be able to remotely locate the HTC One M8, then we will need to press down on the icon until it is turquoise again. It is good to have this option activated because it can help us find our phone if we have lost it or if it has been stolen.

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This concludes our tutorial on how to turn On and Off the option to be able to remotely locate an HTC One M8
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If you have any questions, comments or queries regarding this video or about the process you have witnessed in this video, then please leave them in the comment section below and we shall answer them for you.
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