The best applications to know where your children are
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One of the reasons parents use to give their child a mobile phone is to be able to know where she is at all times. And while the child has a right to privacy and privacy from her, the father's right to keep his child safe prevails. We are going to show you in this special today some of the applications that you can install on your phone and on your child's phone to know where they are at all times. We recommend that, far from wanting to tell you how you have to educate your children, that you talk to your children about your intentions and that all this is simply so that they are safe on the street when they are alone without adult supervision. .
All of the apps below are free, although some may have premium features that cost a certain amount of money. Also some of them can show you . Let's start! A note of caution before proceeding: when you set up your child's phone, do so using your own email account.
Find my device
This application, developed by Google, makes it easy for you to locate a specific mobile phone at all times. To do this, all you need is a Gmail account and install the application on both devices, yours and your child's. This application is free, does not contain or purchases inside. It also has an installation file that weighs only 3.5 MB so you can download it whenever you want, regardless of whether you are under a WiFi connection.
Open the application on your child's mobile and enter it with your email At that moment, a map will locate the place where your child's phone isand your phone will be registered. Now, open the application on your phone and also enter with your email. Look for your child's device in the list of connected devices and it will also appear on the map. Now, you can make it ring and even block it remotely, in case someone has stolen it or lost it.
Share location with WhatsApp and Google Maps
With this option you will have to do a bit of your part and teach him that he will have to do some things with a couple of applications, specifically, WhatsApp and Google Maps, a couple of applications that we recommend that you install on his phone because they will keep you in touch with him at all times in addition to knowing his route in real time.Of course, it is necessary that you also provide an external battery, since the function of sharing the location during all the time can drain the battery and if your child runs out of battery on the mobile... goodbye tracking.
For your child to share location with you through WhatsApp they must do the following.
- Open the application and look for your contact on the chat screen.
- Now, click on the clip icon and, in the small pop-up window, locate the 'Location' icon. Click on it.
- Next, tap on 'Real-time location' and set the time you want it to be shared. There are three options, 15 minutes, one hour or eight hours. At that moment, when your son leaves, you will see on your WhatsApp where he is at all times.
Google Maps
With Google Maps we can also ask our son to share his location in real time. To do this, you have to mark a route in the Maps application on your child's mobile, for example, from home to school. Once the navigation in the application begins, you must click the arrow icon that you can see in the lower right part of the screen. Next, click on ‘Say where you are going‘ and choose our contact within WhatsApp.
Family and mobile locator
Another of the applications that we can use to keep our children or the elderly located, especially if they suffer from a disease that could influence their orientation if they were left alone is 'Family and mobile locator'. With this application you will be able to see the location of your family members that you have included in a 'Circle' on a map, which can only be accessed by invitation.You will be able to configure the application to receive an alert when a member of the circle arrives at their destination or even track a lost or stolen phone. The application is free although it contains paid features. Its installation file is 45 MB in size.
The circle system that integrates this locator is very practical, since you can create them for the purpose that best suits you and include any user, not just a family member, for example, if you take a group trip to not get lost among yourselves Of course, we warn you that people must know at all times that they are included in that group and that they are being tracked.
Safe365
And we finish our tour of those applications to find out where our children are with 'Safe365', an application that, like the previous one, will also provide you with useful information if you are caring for the elderly.The user who has this application installed on our phone, in the case that we are dealing with a child, can press a 'panic button' if they are in trouble, putting them in contact with the emergency services and sending them their exact GPS position always and when you are in national territory or Andorra.
One of the novelties of this application in relation to the previous ones is that we will be able to know, in addition to their location, lthe amount of battery they have leftat that moment, the type of Internet connection they have, if they are moving or the distance traveled that day.
