How to get around teen freezing Life 360
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Anonymous
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Ok so I found out there are hacks to freeze life 360 so it looks like a teen is in one location but isn’t. It used to be just turning off cellular data so your location doesn’t refresh, but now it seems like offloading the app works too. Is there anyway to make it reliable to parents or do I download another tracker app and hide it on their phone?
Has anyone had success with another app? I am also thinking of Find my iPhone - with a parent lock but wasn’t sure if there were ways to get around it. |
Anonymous
| How about telling your kid that if they do that again, they lose their phone for a week. |
Anonymous
| Why can’t you just ask your teen where they are? |
Anonymous
| Is your teen actually freezing you out, or is there a problem with the app/connection? I’d find that out first. |
Anonymous
| Agree with loss of phone privileges. I also add an apple tag to the school backpack, sports bag etc which can be another check on location. |
Anonymous
This is what I do. If I’m paying for the phone, they will cooperate with Life 360. |
Anonymous
| It’s kind of a good sign that they’re taking the initiative, right? |
Anonymous
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How old?
13 or 19? How controlling are you? How often are you looking at 360? |
Anonymous
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How old is the teen, and what are you worried they are doing when they have location turned off?
We just had this discussed in our house. 17 year old wants privacy and not to be tracked. He does occasionally go to “hang outs” he sometimes has beer. He swears he never has and never will drink and drive. We talked about what good the tracking does us - it doesn’t let us keep our kid safe and alive, which is what we’d like to do. It does allow us to catch him in a lie if he wants to lie to us and we want to snoop. We agreed to skip it. Everyone in the family has Life360, but we all agreed to use it for checking when people will be home, that they are still alive on a road trip without texting for updates, etc. Our life has been more peaceful and I worry a lot less than I did when I checked the tracking more. This is clearly age and kid dependent. I have a kid who is almost and adult, and he is generally a kind and thoughtful person who doesn’t get into trouble very often. A younger kid is a different story. We do have a hard and fast rule that if kid breaks rules in the car (excessive speed, drinking and driving) we take the car keys. You could do the same with the phone - disable Life360 and the phone goes away. There is also a premium version of Life360 that can’t be disabled. But kids can just leave their phones someplace allowed while they go make mischief. Tracking may not actually keep them safe. It does make you crazy checking, though. I know that from experience! |
Anonymous
| Seriously stop tracking your kid. People parented for thousands of years without doing this. |
Anonymous
Yep. And if they drive, the car is mine too. |
Anonymous
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Most teens put the phone in airplane mode or disable gps on the entire phone.
And I am laughing at the comments. When the hacks work you don’t find out. That’s the whole point. You think your kid is in bed, or at a friends house, or at the library etc… Find My IPhone with a full parent lock - without letting your teen know usually works and you can verify by checking both 360 and Find My at the same time. Caught my son this way. And yes loss of phone for 2 weeks. But I am sure he will try it again |
Anonymous
My kid is 14 so no |
Anonymous
They don’t drive so your tracking their walking? |
Anonymous
Are you kidding pp Tracking whether they are sneaking out. Or really at a friends house. Or really at a sleepover, or really studying at home (if you are elsewhere) Some teens lie and sneak. I have 3 of them and 1 is trying to break the rules every darn day. So I get it. |