Life360: How to Turn Off Battery Saver

Constant tracking may sound tiring, but it does have its perks. Knowing that your loved ones are safe provides peace of mind and lets you know when they’ll arrive home. This is especially true when they’re behind the wheel of a car.

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

How to Turn Off Battery Saver for Android

In order to have your location updated all the time (which is especially important while driving), it’s necessary to change your settings for battery optimization. This will enable 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. Turn “Use Data Saver” ON.
   
3. Turn “Unrestricted data” ON.
   
4. Switch “Battery optimization” setting to “Not optimized.”
   

Now the user’s location will be up to date at all times.

How to Turn Off Battery Saver for iOS

There are two things every iOS user needs to have in mind when it comes to the battery on the Life360 app. It needs to run in the background in order to display the user’s location.

It is crucial to do the following for the app to track you properly:

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

Now the user’s location will be up to date all the time.

What Does the App Do?

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

You can create circles and add members or join circles and see current position as well as a location history of members (depending on the subscription you choose). By scanning the history location, you can see where your loved ones like to go and maybe visit the places yourself. You’ll also be able to see when they leave or arrive at marked locations, letting you know that your kids arrived safely to 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’s an SOS alert that you can send to your circle when you find yourself in trouble. This save you having to call every one of them individually and explaining 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 does raised concerns regarding the battery life and charging. The GPS, location services, and background refreshment will drain the battery from a device.

But according to the providers, this isn’t the case with Life360. Compared to other competing apps in the niche, the app has the lowest battery consumption. Specifically, you will expend only 10% of your power per day.

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

Of course, users are advised to always have the latest version of the app updated due to constant improvements, which does include battery usage.

Battery Alerts and How to Turn Them Off

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

However, if you don’t wish to receive such alerts, you can easily disable notifications:

1. Go to settings in the top left corner of the app.
   
2. Choose “Smart notifications.”
   
3. In “Low battery notifications,” you can choose to deactivate this kind of notification for certain members. If you wish to do so for all members, you’ll have to manually mark everyone.

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

When Will the App Stop Showing Low Battery Alert for Circle Members?

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

• They turned airplane mode on
• Their location hasn’t changed in the last 30 minutes (the app will activate again once it notices sudden changes in movement)
• Their phone’s battery had died
• They turned off location sharing
• They turned off the GPS
• Connection is lost
• They turned power saver mode on their phone
• They logged out of the app.

Knowing these reasons might be useful before starting to panic when one of your loved ones slips off the radar. However, children might also find out about this “hack” and do any of these steps on purpose, to stay invisible. It is important to trust your children and have a conversation with them, to explain to them the importance of such information, rather than them feeling being spied on.

Other Ways You Can Reduce Battery Usage on Your Phone

Here are a few tips on how to reduce battery consumption:

• Dim your screen light
• Turn off background refreshing for other apps (apart from 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 tweaks to the settings can make all the difference to your phone. With power saving mode switched off, you’ll get 100% accuarte location information of your loved ones in Life360. The app brings a sense of security, especially to those whose kids are just starting to drive. On the other hand, having this setting turned off will increase battery consumption. So, what will it be for you – precise data in Life360, or longer battery life?

Have you ever used the Life360app? Did you have an issue with battery consumption? Let us know in the comments section below.