Anti-Theft protection settings

 

Important: To use the Anti-Theft protection, you need to have or licenses. If you don't have licenses of these products, contact your usual reseller.

The Anti-Theft protection included in will give you total control over your Android devices, and will allow you to take a series of actions in the event of theft.

Namely, you will be able to locate, lock and wipe your device, take a picture of the thief, and send it by email to an address of your choice.

 

Enabling the Anti-Theft protection

  1. In the main window of the Web console, click Settings.

  2. Click the name of the profile that you want to configure the Anti-Theft protection for.

  3. In the menu on the left, click the Anti-Theft option under Android.

 

  1. Enable the Anti-Theft protection.

  2. If you want the protection to automatically report the device location, select the relevant checkbox. This way, it will be easy to find the device even if it runs out of battery.

  3. If you want to receive an email when there is activity on your stolen device, select the relevant checkbox. Enter the email address(es) that the picture of the potential thief will be sent to. Use a semicolon (;) to separate them.

If, together with the option to snap a picture of the thief you select the option to report the device's location, the email you receive will include a photo plus a map showing your device's location.

Once you have finished configuring the protection, the Computer details window will track the location of the device, and will allow you to lock it, as well as change the email address for the Snap the thief feature.

 

Privacy mode

Administrators can allow users to use their devices in privacy mode. This allows the user to disable the options to automatically report the device's location and take a picture of the thief, which will be password-protected.

However, it will still be possible to use those options on demand, but only if you have the password entered by the user.

To re-enable the options to automatically report the device's location and snap the thief, it will be necessary to disable the privacy mode.