Verizon’s updated family-tracking app adds SOS alerts

Oct 24, 2024 11:21 PM - 4 months ago 180829

Verizon has relaunched its family-tracking app pinch a Safe Walk SOS feature, allowing users to stock their real-time location pinch emergency contacts and nonstop notifications erstwhile they get safely. Users tin besides entree a silent SOS fastener that will alert contacts if they request help.

The caller Verizon Family app replaces the Smart Family work that the carrier launched successful 2019. It comes pinch galore of the aforesaid features, including ways to way the locations of family members, position really overmuch clip a kid is spending connected their phone, and group limits connected surface time.

The Verizon Family app besides lets parents position their child’s telephone and matter activity (without really viewing their messages), show their teen’s driving activity, and group location alerts. iPhones and Android devices already travel pinch immoderate of these features built-in, including a measurement to nonstop SOS messages to emergency contacts and various parental controls.

While the Family app is disposable astatine nary further costs pinch a modular postpaid monthly account, you’ll person to salary $14.99 / relationship per period if you want entree to further features. That includes the expertise to group aggregate location alerts, parental controls to negociate surface time, and roadside assistance.

Customers who person the older Verizon Smart Family service, which started astatine $4.99 per month, can proceed utilizing it (Verizon conscionable won’t fto immoderate caller users motion up). The reworked Verizon Family work ties successful pinch the company’s different family-tracking products, such arsenic the Gizmo Watch 3 Adventure.

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