Location SMS

Locate your device with a text, even when it's offline 📱🌎

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Messaging apps•Safety and Privacy platforms•Maps and GPS

Quickly locate your device by texting 'Where are you? '- Location SMS will then reply with its current location Even in Do Not Disturb mode, you can text your phone 'Lost' and it will ring at high volume so you can find it! Set up a 'Geofence' to automatically send a text message to a person of your choice everytime you enter or exit an area

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Android•Tech

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Amrith

stoic.

This is very clever @jamie_turner! Can this be done on iOS too or are there restrictions? I believe Find My iPhone does not have offline tracking to this extent.

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6yr ago

Jamie Turner

PhotoJoke

Maker

@amrith Sorry but there are restrictions for iOS :(

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6yr ago

MD Shaptarshi

@amrith @jamie_turner hi

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3yr ago

Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Ness Labs

Wow, my phone was stolen this weekend (luckily the person didn't think of turning it off so I got it back), so this is front-of-mind for me at the moment. How does it work? EDIT: just saw "offline" not "off" - still curious to understand how it works!

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6yr ago

Jamie Turner

PhotoJoke

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@anthilemoon For locating the device using a text, this is what happens: Location SMS receives a text message and checks if the text contains 'Where are you?'. If the text contains 'Where are you?' then the app will check if you have allowed the sender to request your location or the text or the text contains an authorisation code. If that is true then Location SMS will find your location using GPS and replies with a google maps Url with a pinpoint on your location. However, if someone had stolen your phone and it was turned off, you could still send them a 'Where are you?' text and the second the thief turns it on, the app would receive the message and instantly reply with his/her location.

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6yr ago

MD Shaptarshi

@anthilemoon @jamie_turner hey

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3yr ago

Astghik A

How exactly is this tracking system working?

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6yr ago

Jamie Turner

PhotoJoke

Maker

@astghik_azaryan For locating the device using a text, this is what happens: Location SMS receives a text message and checks if the text contains 'Where are you?'. If the text contains 'Where are you?' then the app will check if you have allowed the sender to request your location or the text or the text contains an authorisation code. If that is true then Location SMS will find your location using GPS and replies with a google maps Url with a pinpoint on your location. For the Geofences, every set period of time, the app will get your current location in the background and check if you have entered or exited one of your Geofences. When you enter or exit a Geofence, a text can be sent to contacts of your choice.

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6yr ago