How to realize real-time tracking of iphone location

Knowing the real-time location of family members, children, spouses, employees can bring many benefits. For example, if you're a parent concerned about your child's safety, you can use real-time location tracking to make sure your child is in a safe area and keep track of where your child is going. Likewise, if you're someone concerned about the whereabouts of a family member or spouse, real-time location tracking can help you determine if they're safe, or if they're where they're supposed to be. For employers, real-time location tracking can ensure employees are working within designated areas during business hours and can monitor their workflow.

What is mobile positioning?

Today's smartphones have built-in wireless networks and GPS global positioning systems. The satellite navigation system composed of more than 24 satellites operates 24 hours a day. The precise position is calculated by the transmitted signal polar orbit parameters, and then the built-in map Once the tool knows the location, you can locate the location of the mobile phone and find someone easily.

How Mobile Location Works

1｜Satellite positioning

Satellite positioning is currently the most accurate positioning technology, common ones include Europe's Galileo, China's Beidou system and the world's largest US GPS. The GPS positioning module of the mobile phone transmits the current position to the positioning background, and receives satellite signals to calculate the current position to obtain precise positioning.

2｜Mobile phone signal base station

Because the high mobile communication penetration rate can be calculated by the carrier base station through the base station to receive the longitude and latitude of the mobile phone SIM card, and then connect the electronic map API to display the location on the map for positioning. Because Taiwan's mobile communication penetration rate is as high as 126.5 %, which can roughly locate the user's current location and moving speed.

3｜Wi-Fi Hotspot

The location is obtained based on the corresponding address of the public Wi-Fi hotspots that you can query for mobile phone location. Because it is based on a certain range, the location and moving speed of the location are approximate rather than the most accurate.

How to enable mobile positioning?

The premise of location tracking is to turn on the relevant GPS service. The following are the steps to turn on location for iPhone and Android phones.

1.The setting path of iPhone positioning

"Settings" > "Privacy" > "Location Services" > "System Services" > "Significant Locations" > Enable "Significant Locations"

2.The setting path of Android positioning  
"Settings" > "Location" > Turn on "Location Services" > Turn on "Wi-Fi Scan" and "Bluetooth Scan"

Enable Android Location Services

Based on the above steps, it can be set to turn on the location of the mobile phone to view and track the footprints of the other half, parents, and children.

Prerequisites for Location Tracking: Enable "Location Services" permission  
Mobile phone location service permissions can allow software service providers to collect more data, but if you have security concerns about personal privacy, footprints and other information sharing, you can set location service permissions for each app. Generally, the following four options are provided:

1.never  
2.ask next time  
3.While using the app  
4.forever

According to your needs, you can individually set or prohibit sneaky positioning when running in the background for apps with different frequency of use. Therefore, to track the location of the mobile phone, you can authorize different positioning App permissions in the following ways.

The setting path of iPhone location service permission

Step 1: From the phone desktop, click "Settings" > "Privacy" > "Location Services".

Step 2: Turn on "Location Services" and select the app to authorize location services (take Google Maps as an example).

Step 3: In "Google Maps" > "Allow access to location", click "Forever" if it is always allowed, and select "Ask next time" or "Never" if you want to prevent the phone from being tracked by location.

Google Maps access location

Step 4: Go back to the previous page to confirm that the status of "Google Maps" is the permission you selected.

Google Maps Location Permissions

After the above steps are completed, the iPhone has authorized the location service to Google Maps. When setting up other apps, click on the app to be authorized and follow the above operation method, and then the app can be used to track the GPS location of the mobile phone.

Android application location service permission setting

Android mobile phone location tracking also needs to set the App location service permission in the following way.

Step 1: Click "Settings" from the mobile home screen and select "Applications".

Step 2: Select the App (take Chrome as an example) to authorize the location service.

Step 3: In "Chrome", click "Permission" > "Location Permissions" > access location and select "Allow only when using this app", and also check "Deny" if you don't want your phone to be tracked.

Step 4: Go back to the previous page to confirm that "Chrome" has allowed "Location".

iOS Built-in: Find My iPhone

If you are using an iOS device and want to quickly locate other people's mobile phones, the built-in "Find My iPhone" can automatically obtain the location of your own or other family and friends' mobile phones. When the phone cannot be found, you can quickly locate the phone. There are two ways to enable the "Find My iPhone" function. Let's take a look at how to set it up!

method one:

Step 1: Click "Settings" from the mobile desktop and enter "Privacy".

Step 2: Click "Location Services" in "Privacy".

Step 3: Turn on "Location Services" and click "Share My Location".

Step 4: Confirm that "Find My iPhone" is turned on to complete the setup.

Method 2:

Steps: Also from the phone desktop, click "Settings" > enter "Privacy" > click "Location Services" > click "System Services" > enable "Find My iPhone".

After the setting is complete, enter the "Find" App and click "Start Sharing Location" to send the current mobile phone location to the other party.

2 Android Built-in: Find My Device

Android mobile phone tracking and positioning also has "Find My Device", which can locate Android mobile phones or find people. The specific operation steps are as follows.

Step 1: Click "Settings" from the mobile desktop and then click "Privacy".

Step 2: Click "Find My Device" in "Privacy".

Step 3: Click "Open" in "Find My Device".

3 Google Maps

Many users also choose to use Google to locate others. It should be noted that the location must be set to "forever" before using it, otherwise the follow-up operation will always jump to the confirmation window.

Mobile phone location finder Google can directly send to email contacts, or you can choose to send to other App contacts, as follows.

Step 1: Open Google Maps, click the account icon on the upper right, click "Location Information Sharing" > "Share Location Information".

Step 2: Set the duration of the "Sharing Period" and the sending object. You can send it from "Email Contacts" or click "More Options" from other Apps. Here we take sending from other Apps as an example.

Step 3: After setting the sharing period, click "More Options" and find the app to be sent. Take "Messenger" as an example, click "Messenger".

Step 4: Enter the name of the sender in the search field, confirm that the sender is correct, and click "Send" in the upper right corner.

Step 5: If you want to share with others, you can click "Share via Link" > "Copy Link" > then paste it to the person you want to send, and the other party can see the phone location you shared.

4. SpyX

Using SpyX to Track Someone’s Location without Them Knowing

It is very easy to operate SpyX for tracking someone’s location. Only three steps are involved.

Step 1. Sign up Free

Before start monitoring, create a free SpyX account using your valid email.

Step 2. Connect Target Phone with SpyX

Purchase suitable plan. Set up SpyX and login to the iCloud account using the target device’s iCloud ID and password.

Step 3. Start Monitoring

Start tracking the target device’s location from SpyX control panel.

5WhatsApp

Use WhatsApp to share your real-time location or send your current location, and you can also track your phone's location.

1｜WhatsApp share real-time location path

Step 1: Open WhatsApp, click the "+" icon in the lower left corner in the dialog box of the transfer object.

Step 2: Select "Location" > "Share real-time location" > click "OK".

Step 3: The shared real-time location will appear in the dialog box, click on it to see the location of the other party and the distance to the other party.

2｜WhatsApp sends the current location path

Step 1: Click the "+" icon in the lower left corner in the dialog box of the transfer object.

Step 2: Select "Location" > "Send Your Current Location".

Step 3: The current location shared will appear in the dialogue box, and you can use this to track the location of the other party's mobile phone.

In conclusion:

In summary, real-time location tracking can help us better keep our families, children, spouses, and employees safe. SpyX is a better tool than other methods because it enables real-time location tracking and has the advantage of being 100% invisible without requiring an app to be installed.