Life360 is a popular Android app designed to help families stay connected and safe. It offers real-time location sharing, allowing family members to see each other’s locations on a private map. This is especially useful for parents to keep track of their children’s whereabouts.
Key features include:
Life360 focuses on safety, offering peace of mind for families, especially those with kids or elderly members. It’s free to use with optional premium features for enhanced protection and services.
If your phone is in Airplane Mode with all radios off (cellular, Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth), Life360 cannot update or share your location because it has no internet connection—even though the GPS receiver may still be active.
GPS hardware stays on in most phones, so location can still be recorded locally—even when in airplane mode .
🌐 But without any data connection, Life360 can’t send updates to its servers or your Circle, so the map just shows your “last known location” before you went offline.
📊 Once you turn off airplane mode or re-enable Wi‑Fi/cellular, the app resumes uploading your current location.
On Life360, purple dots typically represent “location updates” or “location pings”—these are moments when a family member’s location was actively updated or shared with the group.
No, Life360 cannot track a phone that is completely dead (powered off or out of battery).
Here’s a breakdown of what happens:
Life360 cannot update the location because:
The app will display the last known location before the phone died or was turned off.
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