Life360

Life360 is a comprehensive location-sharing app that enables users to stay connected with their loved ones. It offers fool-proof security for you while offering real-time tracking to alert you where your loved ones or other valuable items are at the moment. 

It is one of the best solutions, specifically for parents, to keep updated about the current activities of their kids. It not only allows users to catch the current location of others, but also helps them share their own location with friends or other officials to meet in a public place.

What is Life360?

Life360 developed by Life360, a free-to-use utility and tool, is used for staying in touch with your friends and family. It helps you to set an emergency contact and sends SOS alarms in case of any emergency or difficult situation. It works as a GPS tracker and helps to track the current activities while creating private circles of your loved ones.

The innovative app helps to minimize the uncertainty while keeping everyone aligned. So, you can easily manage your school-going kids, teens agers activities, and support aging relatives. No need for constant check-ins, instead see at a glance what is going on with your loved ones. 

Life360 Features

Real-time Locations

The displaying of real-time locations inside private Circles available for members, and use “Place Alerts” for monitoring the arrivals as well as departures. You can also manage context while reviewing the Location History, and easily coordinate pickups and or meetups without using guesswork.

Simply, use your mobile number or email to create an account, and create private Circles to invite family members to share your location. Set key Places and allow location permissions such as home, school, or workplace. Next, enable SOS, review Crash Detection settings, and add emergency contacts. 

Private Circles

The app allows you to create Private Circles and offers consent-based sharing, as you can select members, invite them, and share your location with them. It is possible to manage settings such as pause location updates if you aren’t interested. In case of turning off the mobile or disconnection of the internet, you will find the last known location and the connection status. You need only to “Enable” location services and notifications to get informed.

Chat Feature Integration

To make the users more interactive through seamless integration of the chat feature. It enhances the communication inside each circle and enables the users to stay connected and engage with each other to foster a familiar bond and friendship.

Custom Geo-fences

You can create custom geo-fences to maintain the locations that are frequently visited, such as home, school, or other workplaces. In this way, you can get automatic notifications about the arrival and departure of the member enrolled in the Private Circles.

Emergency Dispatches

Along with regular arrival and departure alerts, the app also supports an Emergency Dispatch feature that actively performs round the clock to detect serious car crashes. It enables you to quickly receive alerts in case of any emergency and easily navigate to the place where help is needed. However, the feature demands a paid subscription. In addition, the support for Roadside Assistance helps to manage encountering vehicle-related situations such as free towing, jump-starts, tire changes, lockout assistance, and refueling. It is the best solution for long journeys.

SOS Alerts

It is another core feature that quickly shares precise location with your friends and family, a specifically helpful feature when you are in a critical situation. You need only to enable the feature and select contacts or responders. It will send alerts to the selected people, even when you are out of the station and don’t have an internet connection. 

Tile Bluetooth Trackers

The Tile Bluetooth Trackers connectivity enables users to track nearby items such as keys, wallets, luggage, electronics, and so on. You can recover things while ringing the tag and showing its last known location when out of range. You can also track your pets using the GPS Pet Tracker. You need only to confirm Bluetooth permissions before pairing to make the process smoother. 

Family Driving Summaries

The app offers detailed insights about driving habits to make driving safer and more reliable. The innovative feature offers both family driving summaries and individual driver reports, and allows users to view speed, phone use, and hard braking over time. It is the best option for the safety of drivers on the road, and protects you from accidents. 

Pros

• Share your location with your family members using private Circles
• Uses innovative SOS alerts to inform others about your bad situations
• Interact with others within the awesome chatting feature
• Get Family Driving Summaries to manage your driving safely and securely
• Offers Tile Trackers to track nearby items
• Simple to use and clean interface

Cons

• Requires a subscription plan to offer multiple advanced features
• Multiple privacy concerns