Life360 Adds A New No-show Notification To Its App

Location search app Life360 announced coming that it is adding a caller notification to its app that lets users cognize erstwhile a friend aliases a family personnel doesn’t get astatine a peculiar location astatine a designated time. This characteristic intends to thief users from perpetually search nan location of personification to cheque if they reached a spot safely.

Life360 said it is launching nan caller no-show notification during nan back-to-school play to trim parents’ accent astir their children getting to school. The institution said this is an replacement to those predominant “where are you?” texts.

To activate this feature, you tin spell to nan circle of nan personification you want to group an alert for, pat connected their profile, and past pat connected nan “Set a No Show Alert” option.

You tin past group a spot and a clip to get a one-time notification if they don’t scope that spot connected time. You tin besides make these alerts recurring by tapping connected “Repeat” and selecting days of nan week.

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The characteristic allows a grace clip of a fewer minutes from nan group time, aft which nan alert goes off.

“Coordination is mostly a apical interest for families, but this is particularly existent during nan engaged back-to-school season. In fact, caller app downloads of Life360 really highest during nan weeks starring up to nan first time of school,” Mike Zeman, CMO astatine Life360, said successful a statement.

“No Show Alerts were designed to springiness parents bid of mind and mitigate nan request to perpetually cheque successful connected their kids’ whereabouts. It’s a instrumentality to promote spot successful their families to get wherever they request to be, while still having a backup alert if they request to measurement successful and spot why personification didn’t make it to wherever they are expected to be.”

While Life360 described nan parent-children usage case, it said that anyone successful nan family tin group alerts for personification other if location sharing is on. The institution added that anyone successful nan family tin move disconnected location sharing astatine immoderate time.

The caller no-show characteristic will rotation retired to each members successful nan U.S. coming and will beryllium disposable to world members successful nan coming weeks.