My family currently uses life360(iOS and android). But I hate their privacy policy. I’m looking for an alternative. The thing that’s difficult is I can’t find one that’s opt in to each other. Like my parents are split so they dont want to share with each other but the rest of us do. Prefer selfhosted but anything is better that where we are at. Thanks!!

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      I wish this had the feature set I was looking for. Either like life360 where I have circles and we have group location shares. Or like findmyfriends where its per person based. The per person one seems like it would be possible with a little bit of MQTT or something.

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    I saw what I think was a plugin for osmand that would share your location in real time via telegram. Took a look, it looked okay, but people I know don’t use telegram (or osmand - not necessary but helpful) so forgot it. Sorry, I can’t find it now within osmand or fdroid!

    There’s a few location sharing apps in fdroid, maybe one of them could be an option? Dunno about iOS support, but the way the telegram/osm one worked is the receiver could have it link through to osmand or just click the link in telegram to see the map location online.

    Osmand does have a generic facility for location uploads: within the track recording plugin. You can self-host a custom solution that takes a URL input to log a location point. Sorry, that’s probably more work than you want! I certainly gave up on it!

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    As a graphene user, this and Android auto are there only things I miss about iOS or Google services. I am following this post to see if anything good pops up. I travel a lot for work and I like my wife to know my location.

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    It can be done with Google Maps but thats google. It does work well however. There is also traccar that can be self hosted but I don’t know if there is an iOS client

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    I’m in the same boat, and I haven’t found any good alternatives just yet. There is hope though, I’m following the development of an app called “Zood Location”, which is foss. It only has an Android version at the moment, but an iOS version is in development. Here’s their website: https://www.zood.xyz/

    At the bottom it says to download from the Play Store but it’s also on F-Droid. I emailed the creator about the lack of iOS support and just asked about that, and they responded saying they would email when it’s ready for beta testing, so maybe you can do the same!

    Overall though, there’s just no good solution that’s easy right now.