Upper Echelon Location Sharing – Life360: Find Friends & Family Review

Folks, it doesn't get better than this location sharing app - and I use the free version. Negligible battery drain unbelievably, ability to see my family member's battery levels and get alerted should they drop very low, and accuracy is top notch. If you are having problems with accuracy then it is probably because you don't have Apple Location Services enabled which takes advantage of not only GPS but wifi network location and cell phone tower triangulation worst case scenario. I can see the history of where I've been or where my sister has disappeared to since I'm a protective older brother. The greatest feature and reason why battery usage by this app is so low is because they use geofencing. Geofencing as the name implies creates a virtual fence around your iDevice's location that allows you to tag and name places and get alerted if you wish when a person leaves or enters that geofence. Once inside a geofence the app has no reason to update your location till you leave - hence the extreme battery savings. Thank you developers of Life360 - you've developed an application that keeps my parents from having heart attacks (and is easy enough to use by them)!
Review by dqv1987 on Life360: Find Friends & Family.