Location Tracking Android Phone

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I have an older friend who's wife has a medical condition, so he'd like something that could give an accurate real time location of her phone by using his phone, ideally accurate enough to help find her in a shopping mall should she wonder off.

There are apparently medical/bracelet devices for this but of course they have a price tag to go with them.

Would prefer free, OSS application, and something that's doesn't use some server/middleman if possible.

 

[newby_investor]

Any application like this is going to need a server unless you’re a real propeller head.

There may be something that you can self-host on a cheap VPS. But accuracy to be able to find her inside a shopping mall? That’s a big ask. Let me poke around.

 

[newby_investor]

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without having used any of them, Hauk and ulogger from the above list look as though they might fit requirements. But you’d need to do some testing.

Modern android phones often have things like battery optimisation which gets in the way of real-time location sharing. So YMMV. But that’s where I would start if I were in that situation.

 

[WAslayer]

Google's find my device is free and all you would need is access to the Google account setup on the phone you are trying to find..

 

[Gravedigger]

Should something like Life360 also work?
Been using it in the past.

 

[Tun@]

Google Maps/tap top right icon/location sharing/until you turn this off