Tasker: Find a Phone using Bluetooth

Lauren Stephen
8 min readJul 27, 2020

Getting Started with Android Automation, Part 2

An easy but useful Tasker recipe that locates an Android phone by causing it to emit an audible beep when it connects or disconnects to a paired Bluetooth device. Although this article is a standalone piece, it can be read as a continuation of Getting Started with Android Automation Using Tasker.

Dark grey Samsung phone laying at the corner of a brown wood desk. Photo by John Tekeridis.
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Lauren Stephen

Writer, editor, technical writer, part-time lecturer, and semi-professional stand-up comic based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.