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Tracking App - one my child can't switch off? |
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Tracking App - one my child can't switch off?
My child currently has an iPhone 4s and I have a Galaxy S4 - I am tracking using Life360 but my child keeps turning the Location Services off (I suspect). Before the Cotton Wool Brigade reply - there is a good sound reason I need to keep tabs.
Is there an App I can use where it would prevent them from interfering with the settings? Thanks in advance |
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If you go on Settings, General, Restrictions, you should be able to lock the location services on with a passcode.
If your child is turning location services off then that's at a system level not an app level so changing app wouldn't do it, but luckily Apple have included a way to lock it on as I said above. Hope that helps
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I'm not sure if you can view Find My iPhone on Android; I guess you can...so you could use that as unlike the app you're using now, it can't be closed and will run whenever you login and the phone has a GPS signal.
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Where's My Droid app can be hidden from view (and restricted access via PIN to the app) I beleive, don't know if that stops someone turning off location services though.
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or explain to your child they can have an iphone so long as the keep the tracking turned on, if it is turned off then they will have their iphone turned off.
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Your child can still turn the tracking off on any phone in three ways.
- Airplane mode. - Simply turning their phone off. - Taking the SIM out It's all a bit futile. |
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Find my phone on iPhone is good, as to turn it off you need to put your phone in Aeroplane mode. If your wife (sorry child
) is putting their phone into aeroplane mode then there is a reason.
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Your child can still turn the tracking off on any phone in three ways.
- Airplane mode. - Simply turning their phone off. - Taking the SIM out It's all a bit futile. Years ago if your child went missing either Sid the local pedophile had them or they had gone to the park across the main road they were told not to go to. Today every peado on the planet is potentially in your child's bedroom via their phone/tablet/PC and even the smart tv. It worth taking every precaution you can! |
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I agree. I installed it on my kids phones to limited success. Often we have the excuse that location was 'knocked off'
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Your child can still turn the tracking off on any phone in three ways.
- Taking the SIM out |
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Hide a gps tracker in the sole of his trainers
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) is putting their phone into aeroplane mode then there is a reason.