Life360: How to turn off battery saver

Constant monitoring may seem exhausting, but it has its advantages. Knowing that your loved ones are safe gives you peace of mind and lets you know when they will arrive home. This is especially true when they are behind the wheel of a car.

Enter the Life360 app. It can help you keep track of your friends and family. However, you will need to constantly collect locations and as a result, you will need to turn off battery saver. This article will explain how to do it on the most popular devices.

How to disable battery saving on Android

To have your location updated all the time (which is especially important while driving), it is necessary to change the battery optimization settings. This will allow the app to work in the background while you’re on the move and keep your circle updated on your precise location.

To allow the app to track your location constantly, follow these steps:

1. Go to your phone’s settings.
   
2. Activate “Use data saver”.
   
3. Turn on “Unrestricted Data.”
   
4. Change the “Battery optimization” setting to “Not optimized.”
   

Now the user’s location will be updated at all times.

How to turn off battery saving on iOS

There are two things every iOS user should keep in mind when it comes to Life360 app battery. It must run in the background to show the user’s location.

It is essential to do the following for the application to track you correctly:

1. Go to your phone’s settings.
   
2. Disable “Battery Saver Mode”.
   
3. Turn on “Background App Refresh” for Life360 (this way you can still restrict other apps from running in the background).
   

Now the user’s location will be updated all the time.

What does the application do?

Life360 provides peace of mind. It allows you to know where your friends or family are at all times.

You can create circles and add members or join circles and see the current position as well as a location history of members (depending on the subscription you choose). By scanning location history, you’ll be able to see where your loved ones like to go and maybe visit the places yourself. You will also be able to see when they leave or arrive at marked locations, letting you know that your children arrived safely at school, for example.

The app also offers driving reports, which can be useful if you have kids who are just starting to drive and want to know their average speed or track their movements.

Last but not least, there is an SOS alert that you can send to your circle when you find yourself in trouble. This will save you from having to call each of them inpidually and explain the situation before finding the member who can help you.

Does the app use a high percentage of your battery?

Using an app that constantly shows your location raises concerns regarding battery life and charging. GPS, location services, and background updating will drain a device’s battery.

But according to the providers, this is not the case with Life360. Compared to other competing apps in the niche, the app has the lowest battery consumption. Specifically, you will spend only 10% of your energy per day.

The reason is that its algorithm knows when it needs to update your location information, meaning it doesn’t require GPS all the time. The app should recognize when you’re on the move and use GPS more actively.

Of course, users are recommended to always have the latest version of the app updated due to constant improvements, including battery usage.

Battery alerts and how to turn them off

One of the best features of the app alerts you when someone in your circle is low on battery and may soon become untraceable. This is useful as you can contact them before they become unavailable and remind them to recharge the battery.

However, if you do not want to receive such alerts, you can easily turn off notifications:

1. Go to settings in the top left corner of the app.
   
2. Choose “Smart Notifications.”
   
3. Under “Low Battery Notifications,” you can choose to turn off this type of notification for certain members. If you want to do this for all members, you will need to mark them all manually.

This can be useful for people with large circles, as they might miss out on some important notifications due to receiving too many.

When will the app stop showing low battery alert for circle members?

Even if you want to stay informed on this matter, there are a few reasons why the app might not show if a circle member’s battery is low.

• They activated airplane mode
• Your location has not changed in the last 30 minutes (the app will activate again once it notices sudden changes in movement)
• His phone’s battery had died.
• They disabled location sharing
• They turned off the GPS
• Connection is lost
• They turned on power saving mode on their phone
• They logged out of the app.

Knowing these reasons can be helpful before you panic when one of your loved ones disappears from the radar. However, children can also find out about this “trick” and purposely follow any of these steps to remain invisible. It is important to trust your children and talk to them to explain the importance of this information, instead of making them feel spied on.

Other ways to reduce your phone’s battery usage

Here are some tips on how to reduce battery consumption:

• Dim the light on your screen
• Disable background refresh for other apps (other than Life360)
• Turn off vibration
• Turn off location services for other apps
• Turn off push notifications for irrelevant apps

Better tracking or battery saving, who wins in your books?

Small settings adjustments can make a difference on your phone. With power saving mode disabled, you will get 100% accurate location information of your loved ones in Life360. The app provides a sense of security, especially to those whose children are just starting to drive. On the other hand, having this setting disabled will increase battery consumption. So what will it be for you: accurate data on Life360 or longer battery life?