Find My Kids ~ Footprints™ Reviews

Wish it worked consistently

smarieward

Kept dropping “friends” and stating I didn’t have any. Bought three year subscriptions for me and two kids in January. One has started stating it has expired. Had to continuously allow location sharing even when set through the settings. While it worked, it had good functionality but now is just a waste of money.

Just Don’t

everyfhckingnameistaken

Waste of money

Unresponsive after purchase-DO NOT BUY

Sparkles sparkles

Tracking was two days behind. Uninstalled, reinstalled, never received verification code to register app. Unresponsive to emails-still waiting and still can’t use app. Use to love this app and used it every day for years. What has happened?

Do not waste your time

ciasea

It never works! The only person it tracks is me!! I paid for it for my family phones and no matter what I do it will only track me! Wasted my money!

Stopped working

gpuck

Worked for about two days and then stopped. Tried some of the solutions mentioned but it won’t let me sign in or reregister. Website has not been updated since IOS 7.

Needs Search for the Geo Fence Feature

Summer_sunshine

Giving it two more stars than it deserves only because it works, despite the inconveniences I mention below. I’ve not found it as hard to set up as others may describe, but am dismayed that when setting up a geofence you have to physically scroll the map and zoom in to the location you want. For some reason they have not provided a search function to allow you to pinpoint an exact address. Very inconvenient for when you are setting up a geofence in a location that is far away (I.e. across the country) and you don’t know enough about the location. I had to switch back and forth between the phone’s native map app and Footprints several times to pinpoint the locations for my long distance geofences. Also, when setting a geofence the map can only display in hybrid mode, even when you change the main screen’s map settings to just a plain old graphical map. This makes setting a the above mentioned long distance geofence even more cumbersome, as the map refresh rates are much slower. It would also be great if you could use a logged waypoint to set up a geofence. No can do. Lastly in the complaint department, tracking others won’t work unless you switch both location tracking and location sharing on for your own phone, even though you may not be giving others (I.e. your kids) permission to track you. What this tells me is Footprints is forcing you to track yourself and is likely using your location data for their own purposes.

Works

Vbnh

Like another reviewer said, sometimes it works, but a lot of the time it doesn't. The first few months we had this it seemed to work well, but after we renewed for the year it really went downhill. Stops working often, then we are sending texts back and forth "Your footprints are messed up" and try restarting the app. It just hasn't been serving it's purpose.