One family, two kinds of phone

Who: A family of four: two parents with iPhones, a teenager with an Android phone, and a younger child with a first Android phone.
The problem: The parents' phones can see each other, but not the teenager's Android. The younger child has just started walking home from school alone.
What they switch on: Everyone installs Silbame and signs in.
The parents share with each other, Indefinitely.
The teenager shares with both parents Until End of Day, on days out.
A parent sets up the younger child's phone as "A child's phone".
What changes: One list with all four, each with the age of their last position. The teenager decides when sharing ends. If the child's phone stops reporting, a parent gets a notification.

Before

The parents used the location sharing that came with their iPhones. It worked between the two of them. The teenager has an Android phone, so the family used three different apps and a group chat with “where are you?” in it.

With Silbame

Everyone is in one list, whatever the phone. Each line shows the place and how old that position is, for example Mamá · Live · now or Dani · 12 min ago.

The teenager shares with the parents only on days out, and picks Until End of Day. When the day ends, sharing stops by itself. The Me tab shows who can see them at any moment, and Stop Sharing My Location is one tap away.

The younger child’s phone is set up by a parent, with the parent’s own account. On that phone sharing stays on and the child cannot stop it, and the phone says so on screen. If the phone stops reporting, for example because the battery ran out, a parent gets a notification. Today that notification works on Android.

What this example leaves out

Arrival and leaving messages for saved places, like school or home, are planned and not in the apps yet. So in this story the parents look at the map; they do not get a message when the child arrives.