How to Track Your Child’s Phone with GPS

As a parent, it’s easy to stress about your children when you’re not with them, especially if they are involved in extracurricular activities outside school. One way to allow your child to have independence while still keeping an eye on their whereabouts is through a GPS location-sharing app like Life360.

3 Ways to Use Life360 to Track Your Kid’s Phone

The versatility of Life360 provides multiple ways to track your child’s phone, including live-location sharing, Location History, and Bubbles.. 

Let’s look at these features and see how they can make locating your children and other family members easier. 

1. Live-Location Sharing

The main component of Life360 is the robust GPS location-sharing capabilities across iOS and Android. Since the software utilizes the phone’s internal GPS and Wi-Fi or cellular data to triangulate a user’s position, finding your child’s location is possible within seconds. 

2. Location History

While you can review your child’s live location to get an idea of where they are, you can also look at their Location History to see where they’ve been. This is great for ensure that they are sticking to their routine and are open/honest about where they’ve been.

2. Bubbles

Bubbles are a unique optional feature that allows families to customize their experience with Life360’s location-sharing service. This feature allows you to create a temporary Bubble that will only share a device’s approximate location instead of the exact location. 

Using Bubbles, parents can give their children the privacy they need while still seeing their general location. It’s important to note that all safety and messaging features will remain on and active. 

Utilize Life360 to Stay Connected with your Child

Whether your kids are driving themselves to school or participating in practices after class is over, knowing where they are can provide incredible peace of mind. With Life360, you can track your child’s phone while giving them the privacy and independence they need to grow. Try Life360 today and explore how it can benefit your family.