1 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: I'm richdmuro and this is rich on Tech Daily. It's 2 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: one of the most popular questions I get. How do 3 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: I track my family members on a map? Well, parents 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: want that peace of mind of seeing where their kids are. 5 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: Plus there's lots of ways to do this because basically, 6 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 1: we're all carrying a GPS tracking device with us every 7 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: single day, and that is our cell phone. So let 8 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: me run down some of the apps that can do this. 9 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: The biggest and most popular family locator app out there 10 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: is called Life three sixty and what's great about this 11 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 1: is that it's built with this specific location sharing for 12 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: families and friends in mind. They say they handle more 13 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 1: than a billion location requests every single day. This is 14 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: the most full featured app of the bunch, and it 15 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: works for iOS and Android. So you do have to 16 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: create a new account, but once you do that, you 17 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: can add friends and family to your circle and when 18 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: you open the app, you're going to see the last 19 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: location of everyone in your circle, and this is something 20 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: I love. You also see the remaining battery percentage, right 21 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: gus the current battery percentage on their phone, so that's 22 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:05,559 Speaker 1: really nice. You can also see a history of where 23 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: someone's been and you can get alerts if they leave 24 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 1: or arrive a location you specify, like school or work. 25 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 1: Plus you can set a radius, so if your kids 26 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 1: at school, you can say, look, if they wander a 27 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 1: thousand feet away from school, I'll get an alert. So 28 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: all the basic functionality of Life three sixty is free. 29 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: But keep in mind this is a business. They do 30 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: have to make money, so they are going to push 31 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: you to that paid subscription that runs about three dollars 32 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: a month, and that's going to give you extended location history, 33 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: which is thirty days of location plus unlimited alerts. So 34 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: this is probably the app i'd start with. Just keep 35 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: in mind that eventually you're probably gonna succumb to that 36 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 1: subscription fee and pay for that because you want to 37 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: get that extra functionality, but you don't have to you 38 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: to use it all right. Next up, Find my Friends. 39 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 1: This is a basic location sharing app that's built right 40 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: into the iPhone. If you search on your iPhone for 41 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: an app called Find my Friends, you're gonna find it. 42 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: It's basically like find my iPhone, but instead of locating 43 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: your devices, you get to see your family or friends 44 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: on a map. The biggest downside of this app is 45 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: that it only works with iOS, so before you kind 46 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: of sign up with this, you have to make sure 47 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 1: that everyone in your circle has an iPhone or some 48 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: sort of iOS device, but you probably want it to 49 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: be an iPhone because it's got that cellular connection. Now, 50 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: this app is pretty bare bones, but it does everything 51 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,959 Speaker 1: you need. Once you have people in your group, you 52 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: can see their location on a map, and you can 53 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: share your location in several ways, always or just when 54 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: you want to send or request your current location so 55 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: someone can say, hey, can I see where you are 56 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:35,639 Speaker 1: right now? You get a little bit of notification on 57 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,399 Speaker 1: your phone, you approve it send your location. There's also 58 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 1: a functionality to send a notification when you leave or 59 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: arrive somewhere, and this can be one time or recurring. 60 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: So let's say you want a notification every time your 61 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: kid arrives to school. You can set that up and 62 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: get that every single day. And that's pretty cool. So 63 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 1: there's Find my Friends on iOS now. Next up is 64 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: basically Google's version of Find my Friends. It's called Google 65 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: Trusted con but this works on iPhone and Android, and 66 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: this is sort of Google's solution to location sharing, but 67 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: it has some other features built in The main thing 68 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: here is that you can sign up pretty easily if 69 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,399 Speaker 1: you already have a Google account or a Gmail account, 70 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:14,919 Speaker 1: so that way you don't have to keep track of 71 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: another password. You can download the app for iPhone or Android. 72 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: Then you sign in and you invite some other folks 73 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: that you want to exchange your location with. Then you 74 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: can choose from several levels of sharing. So there's a 75 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: basic level that just shows you if a member has 76 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: been online recently, and then you can go all the 77 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: way up to always sharing, which is really cool because 78 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: once you set this up, anytime you open up Google Maps, 79 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: you can see exactly where your friends are right on 80 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: the map, which is kind of fun. And you kind 81 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: of set this one and forget about it. You don't 82 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: really need to think about it much, and that's it. 83 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: Once it's set up, it's done. And if you're all 84 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 1: about Google, I think you're really gonna like this one. Now. 85 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: There's also another functionality of Google Trusted Contacts where you 86 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: can send a message out to all of the people 87 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: in your circle. If you feel onsafe, this will send 88 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: your real time location for a specified amount of time. 89 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: So how to use this. Let's say you're walking home 90 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: late at night and you just want you know, your 91 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: loved one, or maybe you're taking an uber home. Whatever 92 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: it is, you say, hey, let me alert my friends. 93 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 1: They're gonna get a message that says, hey, your friend 94 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,359 Speaker 1: has alerted you. Here's a real time location and you 95 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: can sort of track them until they're home safely. So 96 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: the main thing about these apps, you're probably wondering, how 97 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: is this going to impact my battery? So all these 98 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: apps are pretty optimized so that they take advantage of 99 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 1: location services in the background, so they're not going to 100 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:32,919 Speaker 1: straight up drain your battery. But if you're doing a 101 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: lot of real time sharing, that's when you're gonna find 102 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:41,479 Speaker 1: the biggest impact on your battery percentage. So but otherwise, yeah, 103 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: these apps, I mean, like Life three sixty, they built 104 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: their business upon this. If every time you know, someone 105 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,559 Speaker 1: installed this app it was just straight up draining their battery, 106 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: they would not have a very good business. So believe me, 107 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: the battery functionality is front and center. Thanks so much 108 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,359 Speaker 1: for listening to rich on Tech Daily. Hopefully subscribe to 109 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: this podcast. 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