Tile trackers are being fully integrated into Life360

Tile trackers are getting much profoundly integrated with the Life360 app. In a blog station published this week, Life360 announced that you’ll present beryllium capable to acceptable up and negociate the useful Bluetooth determination trackers without utilizing the Tile app astatine all. 

Life360, a household information and determination app, purchased Tile’s Bluetooth device-tracking concern for $205 cardinal successful 2022. Since then, Tiles person been portion of the Life360 app, allowing you to way the determination of some radical and items successful 1 app, but you inactive needed to usage the Tile app to acceptable up the tracking devices. As portion of the transition, the Life360 app volition get immoderate of the Tile app’s features, including sending an automatic propulsion notification if you permission an point down and the quality to spot determination past for Tile-tracked items.

The determination seems aimed astatine pushing Tile’s users toward the Life360 app. The institution told TechCrunch that the Tile app is not being retired “at this time,” but that’s not surprising, arsenic it’s apt to instrumentality a portion to determination customers to the caller app. Considering that arsenic of past month, the Tile.com domain present redirects to Life360.com, the Tile app’s days consciousness numbered.

As portion of the update, Life360 is besides reorganizing its paid plans, adding the SOS Alerts feature that lets you call 911 by triple-tapping connected a compatible Tile to its $7.99 a period Silver membership, on with 7 days of determination history. SOS Alerts were antecedently lone disposable with the $14.99 a period Gold plan, which besides allows for 30 days of determination history. You tin usage Life360 for escaped to way some radical and items, but you lone spot 2 days of determination history. 

Life360 is simply a determination app designed for families. Similar to Apple’s Find My app, it allows authorized members of a “Circle” to spot each other’s real-time locations successful the app. Each subordinate has power implicit whether the app shares their location, arsenic good arsenic however precise a presumption of their determination different members person astatine immoderate time. The work tin nonstop alerts to members of your ellipse erstwhile you get somewhere, permission somewhere, and erstwhile your formation lands. It fundamentally does distant with each those “text maine erstwhile you get there” requests from parents and household members. 

Life360 offers much than conscionable determination services. It styles itself arsenic an wide household information app and has features specified arsenic clang detection and roadside assistance. Its paid plans besides see operator reports, which amusement telephone usage, apical speed, and hard braking data. Families with teens who are tempted by this work whitethorn privation to see precisely however that information is shared earlier signing up for it. 

While Life360 says it no longer sells precise idiosyncratic data, its existent privateness argumentation states it whitethorn stock information with concern partners, including driving analytics services. These services whitethorn stock information with security companies, arsenic elaborate successful this study by Kashmir Hill successful the New York Times.