As parents, we're pretty free-range with our 8-year-old son. We believe it's key to kids' development that children are able to get away from their parents and explore/play on their own. That said we bought him a new Apple Watch last year to keep an eye on him via the find my app and in case of emergencies. We live in a super safe city and neighborhood but in the last few days, there have been several suspected kidnapping attempts within a few miles of our home which of course freaks me out.
Today I went into my Find My app to see if there was a way I could create a geofence around my neighborhood and to be alerted incase my son left that area but I noticed a major flaw that I can't seem to fix. This afternoon I set up a "Notify Me" and put a radius around our house but when he left to go to a friend's house his location on the map didn't move. It took me a minute but I figured out the app was tracking the iPhone we set the watch up with but not the watch itself. Now I could go into Find My>Devices>My Son's Apple Watch and see his location on the map accurately but if my kid got kidnapped or more likely just went too far out of the boundaries I set in "Notify Me" I would never know because Find My>People only seems to show the iPhone location. The logical solution would be to turn the iPhone off and then it would default to the Apple Watch, right? Nope, doesn't update the location at all. Only in the specific device where it doesn't let you set up a geofence radius.
Has anyone dealt with this and figured out a way around it? Seems like a massive hole in the development of the Find My app and everything Apple markets for perental safety.
Today I went into my Find My app to see if there was a way I could create a geofence around my neighborhood and to be alerted incase my son left that area but I noticed a major flaw that I can't seem to fix. This afternoon I set up a "Notify Me" and put a radius around our house but when he left to go to a friend's house his location on the map didn't move. It took me a minute but I figured out the app was tracking the iPhone we set the watch up with but not the watch itself. Now I could go into Find My>Devices>My Son's Apple Watch and see his location on the map accurately but if my kid got kidnapped or more likely just went too far out of the boundaries I set in "Notify Me" I would never know because Find My>People only seems to show the iPhone location. The logical solution would be to turn the iPhone off and then it would default to the Apple Watch, right? Nope, doesn't update the location at all. Only in the specific device where it doesn't let you set up a geofence radius.
Has anyone dealt with this and figured out a way around it? Seems like a massive hole in the development of the Find My app and everything Apple markets for perental safety.
