Trusted Contacts

Fantastic app...if it worked. Instead this app is extremely unreliable to the point of being useless. It regularly fails at its primary purpose and has let me down 100% of the times I needed it. Issues range from not finding anything, to incorrect locations sometimes many miles out. Due to this I really have no option other than to give it 1 star. Such a pity as if it worked it would be excellent.

Freezes up all the time so you have no idea where they really are!! They are home next to me and it has been showing them at a gas station for 30 min and still shows them there

Good grief. If you're an iPhone refugee like me, this is the worst bargain bin version of Find My Friends you can possibly imagine. Impossibly slow to refresh, no arrive or depart notifications, missed location alerts, plus the usual threat of Google suddenly ending support for it. If this sort of thing is meant to lure users from iOS the developers should probably use iOS to see what people like about it.

I am not impressed. Same function in Google Maps is much better and intuitive. Here you can't understand where on map is the person, and at the end you open Google Maps. Good idea, but it needs more work.

Im online on mobile data.. why does it force that ibe connected to wifi to be able to set it up? Useless apl google

This app us super unreliable and doesn't do one thing it is supposed to be doing: share location. For instance my girlfriend was sitting next toe and we enabled sharing for the fun of it and the app showed that she is almost TEN MILES away.

Great concept. Should be integrated with Contacts directly. Should allow user defined response period (more than 1 hour, I'd like 24 hours or 48 hours). Need text integration (not just email). Need feature to alert contacts if phone not logged into network for (user defined) period so for example, if my phone isn't online w/ 48 hrs alert my contacts because something's wrong. 2 stars for now with mods would definitely be must have (5).

Great app. Has helped me track my Family members and employes. Always give correct location. Just want to get the location even when other people are not connected to internet via sms request. This is because in india data connection is not available everywhere. Love this app and recommened to more than 100 people I know. Keep it up. Love you Google.

Not sure y ppl don't like this app but it worked great for me when i tried it. It was surprising how accurate it was

Nice to see a feature I suggested get implemented (instant sharing). What I'd like to see is an option that will only show a location for X mins, then stop. Also when someone requests my location, my phone rings as if a call is coming through.

Has anyone actually used it? After responding 'yes' to location request, I got 'grant location permission' dialog. It worked though, which only shows that those permissions are just an illusion, Google services know where you are anyway, so why even bother?

App sucks balls. Call me if you want throughout details about this ridiculous nonfunctional app.

From long time I was finding for such type of app and finally got it from Google

Way more private than Google Maps' "Location Sharing. It is smart, intuitive, and easy to use. I would like to see Android Wear compatibility, especially for the "Alert" feature.

Great idea, horrible execution. Never works.

Failed at lunch itself. Couldn't detect my internet connection.

Garbage app with a confusing interface.

Says I have uninstalled the app on my trusted contacts phone when I have never deleted it.

Simply doesn't work between iPhone and Android very poor user interface.

Thank you Ratheesh Bai for giving information regarding this and tbis is a great venture of google

It is frozen in the tutorial screen

It is not functioning

A way to feel safe

Good app..

Too Good

Weak

Good

Best

Everyone in a natural disaster situation should have this app. Easy setup, you plug in the number from your settings with a direct carrier and your assigned number with an MVNO carrier. Of which I have both, and with 4.4 and 6.x android.

It works most of the time. Pinned contact no longer shows up in notification bar, that's the biggest bummer. Google maps location sharing, contacts and trusted contacts need to be integrated together.

now that Trusted Contacts is cross platform i can give it a shot so thanks for that! would like to see a feature added so that we can get notifications when contacts arrive at certain addresses. like when the kids get home from school or home late on a school night or when our SO's leave work to know when to get dinner started.

Cannot get real time location data. Only updates locations every hour or two rendering it a useless app.

The entire app is all through email. Why don't you add SMS and MMS support? Who checks their email that often? Nobody, really. And why is this app even in existance still? The location sharing features have been integrated into Google Maps.

Works as advertised. Needs a lot of work in the ease of access department. Not very easy to use in first go.

My only wish for now is that it would have a widget for sending location alert to all contacts as currently the feature is hidden behind multiple touches.

Location sharing is mandatory in instances of Google defined emergencies (whatever that means).

This should be in beta. Nowhere near ready. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt. No support.

Never received verification sms on my mobile even after trying for half an hour. Fix it Google

Helps in coordinating a meet/connect with the trusted contract in a new crowded place.

Necessary and well thought out, but I have a feeling it could be integrated into the 'share your location' feature on Maps