Do any of you track your partner's phone?

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BlueSky

Good god no! Sounds awful, would hate tracking anybody or being tracked.

This exactly.

We are tracking grandad as he has started to wander. Yesterday he bought a bus ticket not using his pass. His wife saw that he was headed 20 miles away so she phoned and told him to get off the bus. It's a nightmare.

Petera

You can share your position on WhatsApp, then he is in control and just shares when he sets off

This is what we do, if necessary.

I have ‘find my’ on my phone, so I can track my husband and he also has it on his phone so he can track me. We hardly ever use it, my husband in fact forgot he had it, but I think it can be useful. I sometimes go off journeying visiting my grown fam and GCs without him when he is busy with something else, and he likes to cycle for miles. Means that if for any reason we cease communication we can track each other just in case. Though that has never happened.

Our grown up DD lives with us and we all have Life 360 on our phones. It is very handy for checking when people will be home. DS uses it to check where his DD is on the school coach and to know if it is delayed.

I see that this thread has resurrected itself! It was interesting reading over it again, We have been using Google tracking since my first post, but it doesn't seem to work, I think because of a lack of phone signal in the area. The map just shows where he was several hours ago, which was usually at home! I might try Life360 which now seems to be available for Android phones, which we both have. We'll see how that goes.

No I d never tracked my husband he’s never tracked me either
And I wouldn’t do it. We generally know where each other go it’s something we wouldn’t do. We would hate to be tracked,

I don’t, but I probably should be able to know where dh is - he goes for fairly long walks in a 2000 acre Royal Park with a lot of remote areas. If he’s out for much longer than usual I do sometimes worry, but it’s usually because he’s started chatting to somebody!

We have each other’s devices on find my phone. It’s really useful and it set my mind at rest for the very same reasons as the OP after my DH came off his bike in the countryside and broke his femur. Luckily a passing motorist came upon him. Otherwise I would never have known where he was.

My DD set us up with find my phone.

Another app that I think would be useful is what3words. Then if he was capable of dialling 999 he could say exactly where he was.

We use Life 360. It is helpful to be able to check and see if someone is actually on their way home. We don’t check to see if each other have gone where we said we were going! Our adult DD is on it as well. We all agreed to it, so no problem.

Never

It isn’t ‘tracking’ if everyone agrees to it!

I still have ‘find my friends’ on my IPhone, handy when the GCs were in China and Japan. I took a screen shot of them both times and they have included it in the diary they kept of their time away.

But our GD only lets her mum ‘find’ her when she is abroad, then she removes it.

They can all find us as well, although I don’t think any of us use it very often.

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