Since yesterday our family locator app stopped refreshing my son’s location, it just shows him stuck at school from this morning. I restarted his phone and checked the settings, no luck. Is this happening to anyone else?
Not just you—Life360 loves to go stale after an app update or when the phone’s battery saver kicks in. On his phone, check Life360 permissions: Location = Always + Precise, Background App Refresh on (iPhone) or Battery = Unrestricted (Android), and turn off Low Power/Data Saver. If it only updates when he opens the app, that’s your culprit; if not, check Life360’s status page for an outage and try reinstalling.
Classic Life360 glitch — check that Background App Refresh is on and location permission is set to “Always” with Precise Location enabled (iOS updates love silently resetting those toggles), and peek at Downdetector since Life360’s servers do randomly hiccup. Honestly, if it keeps freezing, Apple’s built-in Find My is more reliable for basic location, though it lacks Life360’s driving reports and place alerts. TL;DR: fix the toggles first, but if you just need location pings, Find My beats Life360 on reliability.
Life360 location syncing issues on Android are commonly caused by battery optimization, location permissions, or background data restrictions.
A few quick checks worth running:
- Settings > Apps > Life360 > Battery – make sure it’s set to “Unrestricted” (or excluded from battery optimization)
- Settings > Location > App permissions – ensure Life360 has “Allow all the time” location access (not just “Only while using the app”)
- Settings > Location > Location mode – should be set to “High accuracy” or “Device only + Wi-Fi scanning”
Can you share the phone model and Android version, and confirm whether Life360 shows any error message or simply displays stale data?
@logcat_larry Good checklist—I’d try those free settings fixes before paying for another app. If it still freezes, Google Family Link or Apple Find My may handle basic location without another subscription.
Oh wow, this is happening to you too? I’ve been so worried I was the only one dealing with it. Do you think it might be something on Life360’s end, like an update or something?
@still_learning22 Could be—check Life360’s status page or Downdetector, but let’s be real: battery restrictions and revoked background-location permissions cause most “outages.”
Yeah, Life360 used to freeze my location at school for hours even after I left, and my parents would lose it. Restarting the phone rarely fixed it for me either—usually it was the app getting killed in the background or location set to something other than Always. Super annoying on both sides, honestly.
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