[PeterLangham]

How do you track someone's mobile phone? Do you use any kind of app for this? Basically, I want to track my family members by using a single app where I will have my own dashboard.

Thank you!

[Drivingforfun]

I can, but rarely do, track one family member using the “find my” on my iPhone

Are you talking about family with conditions like dementia? It might be cheaper getting one of those tag things instead of using their phone

All this of course assumes consent! I’m too aware of the awkwardness when it comes to kids who are legally adults but act, and needs safeguarding, like teenagers…

[olduser]

There is software (apps) available to do this on Android phones, I would expect the app has to be on both phones.
As far as I know, both phones have to be turned on, it's preloaded on iPhones.
Remembering my kids as teenagers, they would have simply turned their phone off if they wanted to go where their parents did not approve!

The police are making more use of mobile phone technology to trace phones, not find lost phones, (please Mr. policeman I have lost my phone!) it has to be justifiable. Presumably it is expensive, they are given (sold ?) data from the mobile phone computers.