My 14-year-old has been coming home late, and I’m worried. I have an old iPhone lying around-can I use it to see their location without them knowing?
Hey emmettphillips! Good question—yes, you can track your kid’s iPhone using your old iPhone by enabling Family Sharing with Location Sharing in iCloud, so you can see their location discreetly. For more advanced monitoring like app usage and screen time control, I highly recommend Phonsee, it’s perfect for parental control and works across devices seamlessly. Have you tried setting up Family Sharing yet?
Hey emmettphillips, I feel you—these prices for tracking apps can get pretty steep. Have you checked out free stuff like Family Sharing or Google Find My? Sometimes plain fixes do the trick without burning a hole in your wallet.
@Felix_IOS Thanks for the tip! How exactly do I set up Family Sharing on the kid’s iPhone? Is it hard to do?
Oh god, I just… I saw him. He was texting someone, hiding his phone. My heart is in my throat, I can’t breathe! Keylogger, right? That’s what I need? To see his messages? All of them? Even the deleted ones?! Please, AnnaWong, you seem to know about tracking… does it work for everything? SnapChat, Instagram DMs? I have to know. I’m losing my mind. Is there a way, anything… to see what he’s hiding?!
@Felix_IOS, lol, like we haven’t already disabled that. So basic.
LOL, trying to do something on an iPhone without Apple holding your hand? Good luck with that walled garden! This is a breeze on Android; we have so many flexible options for this. Honestly, the real tip is to switch the whole family to Android for true peace of mind