Taking Photograph Remotely
The Remote Capture feature allows you to remotely take photograph from your missing or stolen device and receive it at your email, in order to identify the possessor of your device. On sending this remote command, your device will alert the possessor as if a message has been received, in order to lure the person to look at the screen. Once the possessor taps the 'Read' button to view the message, the front camera in your device will be activated to take a photograph of the possessor. If your device does not have a front camera, the photograph will be taken from the back camera. The picked-up photograph will immediately be sent to your email address registered in Anti-Theft Settings.
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Important Note: The Remote Capture feature is not enabled by default on activating Anti Theft. You need to manually enable the feature through Anti Theft Settings. Refer to Configuring Anti-Theft Settings for more details. |
To remotely take a picture from your device
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Send an SMS with the following text message to your device from another phone.
takephoto#[your Anti-Theft password]
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Note: Replace [your Anti-Theft password] with the password that you specified in Step 1 during Anti-Theft activation correctly. |
If the device is stolen and and somebody has changed its SIM card, you can send the SMS to the new number from which the automated SIM card change alert SMS has been received in your friend's phone.
You will receive an email containing the photograph picked up from your device.