Do you track anyone on an app.

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Seen this elsewhere, thought it very odd, is it something you do. A friend has done it with all the family, they know where each other are at any time. I was a bit meh when she told me.

Sounds really creepy and controlling. Even if done with consent why would you need to know exactly where people are every minute of the day.

I track my ds on an app...he doesn't go out often without me, but he's just started going to the park occasionally with his friends and I like to be able to see where he is..he's 11 by the way. It also came in very handy when he recently lost his phone.

DP and I can see each others location. It's useful for lots of things.

Yes we have it in our family. Not used often but has been useful on occasion.

Yep dc - similarly they can track/ follow me. It’s only for location purposes. Literally every one of my friends who’s dc are old enough to have a phone have either find my friend or a specific app for their dc. When dc pay their own bills I will stop if they ask me to. If they don’t I won’t! Tbh if I could micro chip my dc as I’ve done with the ddog, dcats and drabbits I would!

I do. It’s all consented so should someone not want to reveal location they can turn it off.

I find it very useful. Mainly I can set it to tell me when someone sets off home so I can have dinner ready :). Teenager likes it as they can just text me to come and fetch them and it will navigate to their phone location. Saves me phoning if i’m at work to check if they are home/left for school.
They also use it if I am running late to pick them up, they can see if a) I’m on my way and b) how long I’ll be and if waiting outside or inside is best.

Also when people are late, or on long journeys. I don’t use it even every day. It’s not about knowing where people are every minute.

I do also have access to everyone’s findmy iphone. Don’t know if it’s just my lot but “i can’t find my phone, can you beep it” is a fairly common phrase.

Tbh if I could micro chip my dc as I’ve done with the ddog, dcats and drabbits I would!

Microchips don’t track though. They’re passive. You can just ask people names and addresses rather than have an implanted microchip!

Really useful for Co-ordinating meals when you can’t use your phone when driving etc.

We (me, dh and 17y dd) all have Find My iPhone on our phones so could do at any time. We don't do this randomly though.

We do sometimes use it though but the other people know if and when we will do so. For example, I use it on certain evenings when dh and/or dd are heading back and I am getting a meal sorted. Rather than them having to phone we will use it to give us a good idea of when we will arrive back.

If meeting dd to collect from a school trip, or if were picking each other up from the station, etc. we use it to check they're nearly there, etc.

DD's used it to figure out where me and her dad was, and used it in conjunction with directions/map to meet us.

There are times when you know the person won't be able to call easily but it'd be far handier to know if they are nearly back or on their way, etc to make plans accordingly.

Find not to, but just having the ability to do so, and use it occasionally when we are all aware of it happening works for us. There's no checking up or snooping going on - well afaik anyway. I don't. I trust dh not to, and I really can't imagine dd doing so.

My daughter. And she can see where I am. Kids track each other thru snap chat. One can always turn it off.
It helps especially when on trips I can see them on way back so can time collection. Also if I was expecting her home I can see if she’s still at school or gone to town. My son refuses however and he once called me at midnight out with friends and wanted to come home but didn’t know where he was (countryside). It would really have helped then he had to walk for over an hour!

@Micah that’s true! Now if someone could invent an app that locates the odd socks, the wire from my charger, dd pe kit and where my favourite hair brush has gone that would be fab!

I can imagine it works really well for some people, but I am so glad my dad didn't have this kind of technology when I was a teenager, I'd have gone demented with the ”I see you are near Wilkos, pick me up three screws and a tuning fork”, ”why do you walk that way to school, don't you know that way is full of scumbags”. Then he'd have decided the government was spying on us through the app and said we had to always speak in code in case it worked out our lives were completely boring by itself.

I sometimes use find my iPhone to see whether the kids got to school safely or how far away from home they are. DH doesn’t have an iPhone and I find it annoying I can’t see if he’s left work or not. I don’t ‘track’ them though.

What is the name of these apps?

Yes we can all track each other. As others have said its very handy. I sometimes switch it off and go dark if i want some alone time go to mcdonalds

Mrsryangosling - we just use the inbuilt Findmyiphone app which comes with the devices.

A good friend of mine does it on her DH all the time. I think I feel odd about it because it's linked to a trust issue rather than just generally wanting to know when to put supper on.

I have the DC's phones on my FindmyFriends on my phone, but they're either at school, at sports clubs or with Grandparents so I've never used it.

I did an ex as he was often in another country everyday when working, so it was handy for knowing when to call due to time zones etc. I only used it when he was out of the country.

We use Find Friends. I have my dd who is 12 on there.

We all have it too, as others have said its handy for checking whether someone has left work yet or if they are stuck in traffic.

Well DH has never set up his own Apple account and just registered his devices to mine so technicality I could with find my phone but we have only used it to actually find our phones not to check up in each other.

Me and my husband have locations on google maps - I only think to look if he's out for the night and I wonder if he's on his way back, or he might check if I'm not back from work and he wonders if I've gone to the gym. I find it really convenient and have nothing to hide - each to their own!

We use Live360 to track the DC because they go to school on a minibus. I can see they got there safely (it alerts me when they’ve arrived at school) and can track their journey home so I know when to go out to meet them.

Yes, it helps to find lost phones owned by teens, found one in the middle of a field last time.

We use this in our family, we all love it and it’s not seen as controlling or creepy. We use find my friends app.