Family Safety location tracking not working

Anonymous
2023-03-05T01:16:51+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2023-09-27T19:17:26+00:00

    These guys don't give a **** or they don't know how to fix the issue.

    Probably both....

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  2. Simon Allison 166 Reputation points
    2023-09-27T19:15:28+00:00

    nobody is forcing you to sideload an app, I for one pretty much condone it, as its not safe to do so, just trying to figure out what works and what doesnt right now, and come up with a real solution, that all of us need then feed that back to the correct channels to escalate.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-09-27T19:09:28+00:00

    Also, I just installed that older version but location still isn't working.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-09-27T19:04:25+00:00

    Its ironic that Microsoft is forcing users to download a "Safety" App via sideloading...hahahahaha

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-09-27T18:47:00+00:00

    Yes, apk was downloaded from apkmirror, aptoid etc. First step was clean app data, remove permission and uninstall last version from all phones.

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