Locate your Android devices using Microsoft Intune

In this configuration video, Andy looks at one small but cool feature when it comes to the day to day support and management of Intune devices, locating lost and stolen Android devices. This feature was added to the February 2023 updates and is available to use.
Andy steps through configuration and shows this working on a fully managed Samsung device.
Table of Contents:
00:00 - Introduction
00:30 - Microsoft documentation
03:54 - Device restriction configuration
06:33 - Verify deployment of policy to Android device
04:30 - Demonstration of the Locate device working on an Android device
10.09 - Summary and end.
Andy Jones is a Microsoft Technical Architect at BT and Organiser at CloudManagement.Community. He's on Twitter @Andy_69Jones. Any views or opinions expressed here are his own.

[@user-aa40]

Magic thanks mate, been looking high and low and didnt realize it was hiding in Device Restrictions!!!

[@andrewmccallum5699]

Thanks Andy, very useful post on the location side / last location helps too re where a user last had a device to find it if known, top one as always.

[@andyjones7482]

Thanks Andrew

[@fortunatefaraz05]

Love your devices mate very informative. Can you please tell me which software you are using to see Android on the side ?

[@theCMC]

Hey FortunateFaraz05 Im using APowerMirror

[@nagarajsuresh4359]

@andy jones, what feature have to enable to locate iOS device in intune?

[@robinchowdhury8813]

By Intune office it admin can view my gallery, phone book, recording, social network chat history also? Please let us know

[@user-cp7gh2gm7p]

pre-requisite are location service of the device must turned on and location permission of Intune app must set "allowed all the time". if one of the settings is off, locate device will fails. anyone manage to tackle these 2 challenges so users cannot turn off the settings?

[@jrngsg]

May i know what program you are using to share the mobile phone screen on the computer, please? Thanks

[@andyjones7482]

Jeffrey Im using aPowerMirror which is free and installed on both a Apple Mac and the Android device. I connect the two via cable but you can use your wi-fi

[@tekmoney2006]

Same

[@malikaris2674]

what about IOS devices? does it still work?

[@omardroubi5422]

Interesting--we have always been able to get the lost device sound to play-but across 4 devices with the profile successfully deployed locate device consistently fails and this is in the US on devices where find device used to work 100% of the time through MaaS360.

[@theCMC]

Thanks for info Omar. Did you get an error message at all ?

[@omardroubi5422]

@theCMC on one device we get the notice that thr admin is trying to locate the device but no devices can be located. No error just "locate device failed."

[@itexperience]

@@omardroubi5422 We are experiencing the same issue.
When we manually set Location Services to Allow in the Intune app on the Android Device, then it works. But as soon as we set the Location Services for the Intune app to Block (which is the default), locate device fails.

[@thetrevcom]

Testing this it looks like it only works if the phone is unlocked which is not any good for a lost device, just get action failed when device is locked as soon as unlocked and click refresh it works