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Family Safety location tracking not working
Hello. I have two children with Android phones (Samsung S21's). We have used Microsoft Family Safety for a few years and location tracking has worked perfectly until a few weeks ago when it stopped updating their locations.
I looked at every setting on both their phones, making sure all of the recommended location settings, security settings, battery settings were correct. Still couldn't get their location which showed they were both "In the house" when they were actually at school.
I uninstalled the app from both phones and reinstalled it. I followed all of the security prompts for the recommended settings. Both phones started to report their location again.
However... one of my children is on a school trip. Their phone last reported in five hours ago from a service station 250 miles away. They are now at their destination, but the Microsoft Family Safety app still shows them where they were five hours ago (extremely worrying for a parent).
Looks like the probkem has happened again. This must be a Microsoft problem What are the chances of both my kids phones stopping reporting their location at exactly the same time?
Come on Microsoft please fix this. Our children are very important to us and the app is called Microsoft "Family Safety".
Windows for home | Windows 10 | Family and online safety
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Anonymous
2023-07-07T07:20:43+00:00 -
Anonymous
2023-07-07T06:30:35+00:00 This is no solution! Sooner or later the app will be automatically updated again and the problem is back.
As long as less people are drawing consequences by leaving Microsoft Family or less people are constantly questioning the suppport, nothing will change.
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Anonymous
2023-07-06T22:44:10+00:00 The old version is still working for me. Check both phones are running the old version.
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Anonymous
2023-07-06T17:30:27+00:00 Microsoft Service
After many months of failure of FamilySafety...
what's your solution?
i try previous version and work a month..
now new version, old version the same problem: CAN NOT GET LOCATION UPDATE
now what?
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Anonymous
2023-07-06T15:54:12+00:00 Started Using this App a few days back as My kids are going away holiday. this worked for a day or two but now cannot get the location to update.