PhoneTrack SMS

PhoneTrack SMS lets people you trust locate your phone with a text message. No internet, no account, no cloud and no data plan. This phone tracker works wherever you can receive a text.

HOW IT WORKS
An approved contact texts your keyword. Your phone texts back a map link to its GPS coordinates, with its location accuracy and battery level. They don't need the app and there is nothing to sign up for. For regular check-ins they can subscribe to updates every few minutes, each showing how far and in which direction the phone has moved.

YOU STAY IN CONTROL
* A new number that texts your keyword waits for your approval. Nothing is sent until you tap Approve; blocked numbers are ignored.
* An optional PIN locks the app's settings and approvals, so nobody else using the phone can switch it off or approve themselves. Parents can set up a child's phone, approve their own number and keep the PIN.
* No internet permission, no account, no tracking, no ads.

FEATURES
* Location on request, or the last known location without waking the GPS
* Periodic updates with distance and direction moved
* Choose what each reply contains: coordinates, accuracy, battery, time, map links
* Limits that protect your SMS bill from floods
* Simple-to-use Phone Track app
* Free software (GPL-3.0)

GOOD TO KNOW
* Set location to "Allow all the time" so a text can start a reply while the app is closed.
* Turn off RCS chats for these conversations: Android hides RCS from apps, so those texts never arrive.
* Needs Android 8.1 or later and a SIM that can send SMS.

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