Verizon Family Locator for Android
Great news for Verizon subscribers! The Family Locator app gives you a simple, secure way to stay connected with your family when you’re on the go.
• Keep your family at your fingertips by locating their phone using a computer, tablet or the Android Family Locator Mobile app.
• Set Family Locator to text or email you when family member’s phones are on the move between locations you choose such as school, work, soccer practice or home. Get 24/7 alerts when they enter or leave so you will know when someone is on the way home. Family Locator is great for knowing the school bus made it on time.
• Have Family Locator find your family members phone every day at a certain time of day and text or email you their location. If someone has an important appointment, Family Locator can help you know if they made it or not.
• Make sure the new driver in the house is playing it safe with the ability to check their estimated speed anytime you locate their phone.
Phones compatible with this app:
Motorola Droid 2 Global
Motorola Droid X
Motorola Droid 2
Motorola Droid Pro
HTC Incredible
HTC Incredible 2
HTC Thunderbolt
HTC Merge
Samsung Fascinate
Samsung Stratosphere
Samsung Droid Charge
LG Revolution
LG Vortex
Casio Commando
Pantech Breakout
This app is for Verizon subscribers who have signed up for Family Locator service, and who have a supported Android phone.
To locate family, you sign in to the app with your cell phone number and My Verizon password.
For family members, this app is required so the phone can be located (except for Motorola Citrus and Samsung Continuum users – install the Verizon Family Locator companion software instead).
Many types and brands of phones are locatable, not just android phones. Find out which phones are compatible with the Family Locator service on our web site www.vzw.com/familylocator .
Want to find out more?
Get the latest info about Family Locator! Use a computer to go to www.vzw.com/familylocator to sign up, learn about phones, and discover the many ways Family Locator can help you stay connected with loved ones. Data charges may apply.
Charge someone for try to find family members
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Prompter keeps starting up every two seconds after I decline. Sends a ton of messages stating phone is moving when it is sitting on the counter!
When is this app going to work on the Samsungs.. I have the note 2 and app isn't compatible. . Whst about the galaxy 3..
Every 10 minutes this this asks me to turn on GPS when it is already on.
Please dont put something don't works thanks.
I activated this thing on a Friday and on next thursday it told me to go to a web page to sign the terms and conditions. I have tried numerous times to do so and I could not find the terms and conditions to sign. I called the 611 number and the technician was of no help. So I am stuck right now.
Don't Install.
Great way to track my kid
Aweful was not able to activate several phones Life360 is an easier app
Great app
Lame setup screen pops up every 3 minutes or so and I barely even use family locator
Sucks!!!! It never works!!
SUCKS!!!!!!
Needs improvement
Most annoying app ever. Constantly interrupting what your doing asking you to enable gps and other stuff. I can't un install this app quick enough
I cant even get this cause it always tells me my things on my phone is to low
A must have for a full parents who's kids have cell phones
Kills the battery.
Works for the administrator
$10 bucks a month? For what? First of all. My daughter and I have the same phone but it says my phone is not compatible for download. Secondary, when I went online to locate, the GPS was 8 miles off. Third thing is all the text messages. I would like to locate without her knowledge. If that's the case, I can just call her.!
Didn't work
Unreliable. Inaccurate. Too long to search and return results miles away from actual location. Phone is on, locate available, and this app returns its findings as phone is off or location is disabled or out of network! Really? I'm holding the phone in my hand...in my Verizon FiOS wireless home! But apparently u am NOT here. Lol. What a joke.
The closest the locator ever came was 1.5 miles off. sometimes 50 text messages would be sent in one day saying that one of the family members had turned off the location service which was totally false information. it was a drain on the cell phone battery. life360 is a free app and is 1000% better !!
I wanted to know where my son was. The reason i pay a monthly fee! You want to know where your teen is for peace of mind. I'm paying for nothing! My son texts me and was frustrated that it kept texting him about me locating him! Really Verizon?!? I don't want them knowing I'm checking on them! Could not download the app so went onto Verizon like it tells you to do. Well, I searched every inch within the 2 mile radius! The problem is he was 6 miles from where it said his phone was located.
It's so complicated and it doesn't even tell me correctly where my son is it always says he's at school when he home so yea
Come on Verizon. The note 2 is one of the biggest sellers and you don't have the app for it! Please also fix all the other issues with the service that these members have reported.
Prompter keeps starting up every two seconds after I decline. Sends a ton of messages stating phone is moving when it is sitting on the counter!
can't get within 5 miles of actual phone location is constantly updating and draining battery for $10 a month why the hell doesnt this app work
I am paying 10 bucks a month for this?????? quit spending money on advertising and spend money fixing your crappy apps
With 4 smart phones and it can't get closer than 3 miles. And your child has to leave the locator on. And they get a text if you try to locate them. What good is that. If your child is having problems and you are worried this app does zero good. Absolutely useless. And they want 10 a month for it.
After loading app, showed my wife 1/2 mile from her work location (where she was) and my 10 yr old son in a field over two miles from his actual school location. If it was accurate, I'd be freakin out calling for an Amber alert!!! Waste of money and totally unreliable!!!
Opens randomly. Continues to open the "check your settings" menu over and over. Has popped up twice thus far in this comment. App will be unistalled in 24 hours if this isn't fixed as well as taking the service off my plan
I have gone round and round with VZ for the past 10 months trying to make this sorry app work as they advertise it to. They have sent me 9 replacement phones (we have 3 lines) because "it must be a phone issue" Now they tell me that "oh it wont GEO fence if its connected to Wi-Fi" WHAT.... the location should be from the GPS not the network, the network should be secondary. Save your time and your sanity and keep looking because this is a turd!
Two stars only because it does work. But 1 star for experience. It interrupts constantly. Just throws the full page first-time-run message all the time. In the middle of other apps, which it then kills. Yes, very hard to actually get activated, etc. Convoluted, must have insane permissions, must agree on the handset and 2-3 different places on the desktop. Terrible, terrible app design.
Doesnt work on my phone.
This app requires a $10 monthly fee to locate members. So at a cost of $120 per year should be MUCH better. Its is incredibly intrusive: it launches randomly and exits any app you are running. Force stopping doesnt help. If it only ran when I start it I would give 4 stars
U would expect a little more from a major wireless provider. They sell you the service but it doesn't even work on half the devices. When it does work its extremely slow and only works about half the time from a computer.
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Prompter keeps starting up every two seconds after I decline. Sends a ton of messages stating phone is moving when it is sitting on the counter!