Important place alerts
Focus on arrivals and departures that matter.
Family protection that stays visible
Know important arrivals without hidden location tracking
Create visible safe zones for home, school, and activities. Receive meaningful boundary events while your child can see when location protection is enabled.
Safe zones
Parent dashboard
Important place alerts
Focus on arrivals and departures that matter.
Shared transparency
Location protection is visible on the child device.
Less map checking
Use safe-zone events instead of repeatedly opening a live map.
What changes for your family
Shared transparency
Location protection is visible on the child device.
Less map checking
Use safe-zone events instead of repeatedly opening a live map.
SmartProtect
Protection in three clear steps
1
Add Child Profile
Create a profile in the parent dashboard. Enter their name and age to automatically optimize default settings.
2
Generate Code & Download
Generate a one-time pairing code in your dashboard and install the companion app on your child’s device.
3
Pair & Build Agreements
Launch the companion app on the devices, type in the pairing code to link, review the transparent limits layout with your children, and enjoy deep digital peace.
One parent dashboard across every screen
iOS
Android
Windows
macOS
How family location works
There is a real difference between knowing your child arrived at school and watching a dot move across a map all afternoon. This is built for the first, and deliberately not for the second.
Safe zones for the places that matter
Draw a zone around home, school, a grandparent's house or a training ground. These are the places where arrival and departure actually mean something, and where a notification saves you a text asking whether they got there.
Arrival and departure events
You are notified when a zone is entered or left. This is the useful signal — 'arrived at school, 8:42' answers the question you actually had, without a continuous feed you would then feel obliged to watch.
Status your child can see
The child device shows that location protection is on and which zones exist. Nothing about this is concealed, which is what separates it from tracking.
On-demand position, not a permanent watch
You can check current location when there is a reason to. The design intent is that this is occasional — the zone events are meant to remove most of the reasons to look.
What each platform actually allows
Location is the feature most shaped by operating-system rules, and those rules are mostly there to protect the person being located.
- iPhone & iPad
- iOS 16+. Requires the 'Always' location permission to report zone events in the background. iOS periodically reminds the user that an app is using their location — by design, and consistent with how this is meant to work.
- Android
- Android 8.0+. Requires background location permission. Battery optimisation settings on some manufacturers' devices can delay events, which is worth checking during setup.
- Desktop
- Location is a mobile feature. Windows and macOS devices are covered for screen time, filtering and app rules, but not for location.
Using it without it becoming surveillance
Location is the control most likely to drift from reassurance into habit. A few decisions at setup keep it useful.
Set few zones, and only meaningful ones
Home, school and one or two regular activities cover almost every case. A long list of zones produces a stream of notifications you will stop reading, which defeats the point.
Agree it out loud, including what you will not do
Saying 'I'll get a notification when you arrive at school, and I'm not going to watch where you are the rest of the day' is a commitment your child can hold you to. Make it, then keep it.
Taper it with age
For a younger child, zone alerts are straightforwardly reassuring. For a sixteen-year-old, persistent location awareness is worth revisiting — the question is whether it still buys safety or has become habit.
What this will not do
Location tells you where a device is, which is not the same as where your child is — phones get left behind, lent out and run out of battery. Accuracy varies with GPS conditions, and indoors or in dense city centres it can be off by a considerable margin. Treat a zone event as useful information rather than proof, and never as a substitute for asking.
Common questions
Does my child know their location is visible?
Yes. The child device shows that location protection is active and which safe zones are set. There is no hidden or covert location mode, and there is no plan that adds one.
Will this drain the battery?
Zone monitoring uses the low-power geofencing built into iOS and Android rather than polling GPS continuously, so the impact is small. Checking live location on demand uses more, which is another reason the design favours zone events.
How accurate is it?
Typically within a few tens of metres outdoors with a clear sky. Accuracy degrades indoors, underground and among tall buildings, so zones are best drawn slightly generously.
Can my child turn location off?
They can revoke the operating-system permission — both Apple and Google deliberately make that possible, and no app can prevent it. If that happens you are notified that location reporting has stopped, so it does not fail quietly.
How long is location history kept?
Retention follows your plan's history window — 24 hours on Starter, 7 days on Pro and 30 days on Family Guardian — after which it is deleted.