Family Tracker Helps Locating Missing Child
The Family Tracker app installed on a minor's Android phone was instrumental in providing police with the evidence needed to locate a missing child. The child's mother had previously installed Family Tracker on her son's phone so she could track him to make sure he was safe. One Sunday night the child had the SIM card from his phone removed and then disappeared for several days. The mother suspected he was with another adult the child was prohibited from seeing, but had no proof of this. Using the " GPS breadcrumbs " that our application provides, she was able to provide evidence to the police that her son had been with this adult in the days prior to his disappearance. Within hours after providing this information to the police, the child was finally found walking alone in a very dangerous area of Atlanta at 3AM by a patrol officer. He is now safely home with his mother. More information about this case may be obtained by contacting the Alpharetta Police Department (Georgia) -…
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How To Locate Other Users
You can locate/track other users by adding their email address to the "Locate Others" screen in Family Tracker. When you add a user to this screen, a tracking request will be sent to the their device, asking for their permission to be tracked. Once the user accepts this one-time request, from then on you will be able to track them using your own Family Tracker app - there is no more user interaction needed to track them. In addition, you will receive an email that contains a unique, private link that allows you to track them via a regular web browser as well. If you attempt to add a user who has not installed Family Tracker yet on their device, an email will be automatically sent to them to let them know about Family Tracker and with a link to download the app. Once they install it, they will automatically receive your pending tracking request.
How To Allow Others to Locate Me
If you would like to provide to someone with the ability to track you via a web browser, you can do so from the "Locate Me" screen in Family Tracker. When you manually add a user to this screen, they will receive an email that contains a unique, private link that allows them to track your via a regular web browser. This screen also contains a list of any users which you have previously authorized to track you via their own Family Tracker app. You may remove the ability for anyone to track you simply by deleting their entry from this screen.
How To "Ping" Other Users
You can use the "Ping" functionality of Family Tracker for multiple purposes. Free, verified messaging . You can send free short messages to other users running Family Tracker. When the other user receives and actually views the message, you yourself will be notified that the message was viewed. Gather attention . When you send a ping, we will continue re-sending that ping every minute for up to 6 hours until the user views it. You can optionally play a loud, annoying siren to get their attention if they are not hearing/ignoring your messaging attempts. Force a location GPS update . As soon a the recipient accepts the ping, their device GPS coordinate will be forced to update. This can help if the device does not support background multitasking (for example older 3G iPhones), or if they terminated the Family Tracker app. Locator Pings. You can send " locator pings" to phones. A "locator ping" is a ping with no message content. When a locator ping is sent to a phone running Family…
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GPS settings and updates are slightly different between the Apple and the Android platforms due to the different capabilities the devices offer.
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