Life360 Driver Protect User Guide

Welcome to Life360 Driver Protect! Providing driving peace of mind for the whole family

You can’t always be on the road with your family, but we can. Below are tutorials and tips on how to setup your account and how to take advantage of all the features of your subscription.

Safe Drive Reviews

Safe Drive Reviews allow you to see Events during drives including top speed, instances of rapid acceleration and hard braking, and distracted driving from cell phone usage.

Follow these steps to turn on Safe Drive Reviews for your Circle Members:

Step 1: Enable Drive Detection for yourself

• Launch Life360

• Tap Settings in the menu

• Tap Driving Analysis

• Drag the button right until it turns green

Step 2: Enable Drive Detection for your Circle members

• Follow Step 1 above on each Circle member’s phone

• Each of their buttons must be green on their phones in order to be detected

• If ‘Drive Detection Paused’ is listed, this Circle member has not enabled their Drive Detection

Step 3: Receive notifications after your Circle members’ drives

• Tap Driving in the menu

• Drag the button right until it turns green to turn on notifications for a Circle member

• Drag the button left until it turns white to turn off notifications for a Circle member

Step 4: View Safe Drive Reviews

• Tap on a Circle member to view their History

• Drives are marked separately from trips, ex: “7 mi Drive”. Scroll through History to view 30 days of trips and drives

• Click on a particular Drive to view its Safe Drive Review. Events will be clickable on the map and listed at the bottom. They are listed with time and location of each instance

Safe Drive Reviews include Events for each drive. Listed below is the meaning of each Event. These are tracked while the phone is in motion in a vehicle and is not dependent on the Circle member being the driver.

Phone Usage – Use of your phone 

Hard Braking – Sudden or strong braking

Rapid Acceleration – Increase in speed in a very short amount of time

Top Speed – The top speed reached during a drive

Driver Protect features are available for every member of a Circle. In order to see Safe Drive Reviews, enable Crash Detection, and use our Extended Roadside Assistance, the subscribed Circle must be selected.

Crash Detection

Accidents happen, and we’ll send help to you and your loved ones as quickly as possible. Life360’s proprietary system automatically detects a car accident based on the sensors of your phone. Tested over millions of miles, our smart algorithms can detect the difference between a car accident and dropping your phone on the ground. You can’t always be there, but we can.

How Crash Detection Works:

Driver Protect features are available for every member of a Circle. In order to see Safe Drive Reviews, enable Crash Detection, and use our Extended Roadside Assistance, the subscribed Circle must be selected.

Contact Us for Extended Roadside Assistance

Simply tap a button to reach us 24/7 for driving help.

Click “Call Driver Care Support” to be connected to our trained advisers!

We help with

• Towing

• Flat tires

• Lock outs

• Jump starting a battery

• Running out of gas

We are also available to help with turn-by-turn directions, advice on what to do in a minor accident and emergency situations like severe weather or power lines on the road. We’re just a tap away for your driving needs.

Not sure if you have Driver Protect? Click on your menu, and you will see your subscription information listed.!

If you’d like to subscribe to Drive Protect, click on Premium and follow the next steps

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