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Gps Tracking for your kids iphone?

koilvr

koilvr

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Jun 15, 2010
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Knoxville, TN
I have 4 iphones on my account 2 Iphone4 and 2 iphone 3GS, Whats the best app or feature to tracking the other iphones on my iphone? I know about AT&T for $5 a month to do it. But what about something better and maybe free? I tried searching for 2 days on here but found nothing.
 
The fact that you have "boy" in your screen name is pretty revealing - but let's get back to your post, shall we?

You'll note that the OP didn't mention kids even once.

Oh wait, you didn't read that, you imagined you read that, and decided to post without fully comprehending what you wrote.

And you were snarky about it too.

Good job, kid.

Back to the OP, take a look at google latitude, it may work for you.
 
I have one mobileme account that I use for my email. I installed the account on the wifes and kids phones and turned of the email, contacts and bookmarks and just us it for just the findmyphone. Works great and I am already paying for the mobileme account.

Kenal0
 
I have a MobileMe family plan and use find my iPhone to track what I need. My wife has a habit of leaving her phone lying around. It has saved us more than once. Since they released the iPhone app it is perfect.
 
Yeah I'm thinking the MobileMe solution is going to be the most elegant solution for you. Best interface, and it's built into the phone, not an app that could be removed. You can even force location services on with parental controls so they wouldn't even know you had it enabled (for a while anyway).

I think the AT&T solution price is per phone as well, I may be wrong about that.
 
If you haven't activated MobileMe, you can get a 60 day trial to try it out before you have to pay it. After 60 days are up, it's 99.99 a year, or 8 dollars a month... 0.27 a day. It's your best bet. It's really easy to use to... I recommend it.
To start a trial, go here : http://www.apple.com/mobileme/

and hit Free Trial in the top right side of the page. If you dont like it, you can always cancel before the 60 days is up!
 
slpdLoad said:
Yeah I'm thinking the MobileMe solution is going to be the most elegant solution for you. Best interface, and it's built into the phone, not an app that could be removed. You can even force location services on with parental controls so they wouldn't even know you had it enabled (for a while anyway).

I think the AT&T solution price is per phone as well, I may be wrong about that.
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It's very easy to disable "Find my iPhone" with MobileMe.

You just go into the settings menu and turn it off. No password needed!

It's a bit of a flaw for anyone using the feature, let alone what the OP wants to do.
 
+1 on MobileMe for this. We have it on our two iPhones. My wife couldn't find her phone one evening, so we used it to make sure she hadn't left it at her friend's house. The map showed it was at our house, so I sent the "play a sound for two minutes" thing to it and was able to find it. It had fallen out of her purse and gone under the seat in her car. Calling it wouldn't have worked as well because it would only ring for a short while before going to VM. The two minutes of pinging was more useful.
 
I have tried mobile me but I never used it really. Figured something like this would be easier But I see the benifits of mobile me now.
 
Google Latitude!

So I use this with my fiance and we both love it. Set up a gmail account for each of your family members. Then from the iPhone App Store download Latitudie. It updates in the background on iOS4. Then you add each other as friends in latitude. Then you can see where everyone is. Also you can enable location history too. I love it.

http://www.google.com/latitude

Another alternative to Latitudie is PlaceTrack (http://www.tranquilli.org/2010/06/1...ackground-google-latitude-updater-for-iphone/) but it is not approved yet. Good luck!
 
Ayways, I tried AT$T FamilyMap, and it's horribly inaccurate. If a half mile radius is accurate enough for you, check it out, but I find it too expensive for what it does. It was helpful when my wife was driving out of state to visit a friend and got lost, and I could give her directions to get back on track.

I'd really like a solution that enables recovery of a stolen phone, so it needs to be very accurate and difficult / impossible to disable, at a reasonable price.

I fail to see what's wrong with tracking your kids, btw. As long as I'm responsible for their actions, I'd like to know what they're up to.
 
KameronBriggs said:
If you haven't activated MobileMe, you can get a 60 day trial to try it out before you have to pay it. After 60 days are up, it's 99.99 a year, or 8 dollars a month... 0.27 a day. It's your best bet. It's really easy to use to... I recommend it.
To start a trial, go here : http://www.apple.com/mobileme/

and hit Free Trial in the top right side of the page. If you dont like it, you can always cancel before the 60 days is up!
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Please don't pay full price for mobileme. Either search on Ebay or shopping through your favorite search engine. Any unused authorization code for dot.mac or mobileme can be subscribed (and/or used to update an existing mobileme account). $60 or less, easily.

In fact, I was dumb this year and forgot to shop for a new code in advance of my expiry date. Ended up paying $58 on ebay for an instant code that was emailed to me within minutes, a few hours before my mobileme account would have deactivated. Now, I have a calendar reminder set for next year. :D

And I thought I would never need the find my iPhone feature, as I don't lose things. About two weeks ago (with my old iPhone), I sat it down in my house but couldn't remember where.

Nice feature to have however you get it, through mobileme or otherwise. I like Mobileme mostly for the calendar and contacts sync (I know there are other apps to do those things and mobileme is expensive for what you get, but it's easy).
 
bluenoise said:
+1 on MobileMe for this. We have it on our two iPhones. My wife couldn't find her phone one evening, so we used it to make sure she hadn't left it at her friend's house. The map showed it was at our house, so I sent the "play a sound for two minutes" thing to it and was able to find it. It had fallen out of her purse and gone under the seat in her car. Calling it wouldn't have worked as well because it would only ring for a short while before going to VM. The two minutes of pinging was more useful.
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+1 - The ability to make the phone sound a tone when set to silent is a great feature. Hopefully I won't have to use it in an emergency...
 
If they're all on one account, why not use find "Find My iPhone" its free and gets pretty close
 
Zo6 said:
If they're all on one account, why not use find "Find My iPhone" its free and gets pretty close
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This is what I do. My daughter brings a phone to school. I use find my iPhone to see when she is leaving so I know when to be at the bus stop. Beats standing out in the cold and snow.
 
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