Verizon’s updated family-tracking app adds SOS alerts

Verizon has relaunched its family-tracking app with a Safe Walk SOS feature, allowing users to stock their real-time determination with exigency contacts and nonstop notifications erstwhile they get safely. Users tin besides entree a soundless SOS fastener that volition alert contacts if they request help.

The caller Verizon Family app replaces the Smart Family work that the carrier launched successful 2019. It comes with galore of the aforesaid features, including ways to way the locations of household members, presumption however overmuch clip a kid is spending connected their phone, and acceptable limits connected surface time.

The Verizon Family app besides lets parents presumption their child’s telephone and substance enactment (without really viewing the message), show their teen’s driving activity, and acceptable determination alerts. iPhones and Android devices already travel with immoderate of these features built-in, including a mode to nonstop SOS messages to exigency contacts and various parental controls.

While the Family app is disposable astatine nary further outgo with a modular postpaid monthly account, you’ll person to wage $14.99 / relationship per period if you privation entree to further features. That includes the quality to acceptable aggregate determination alerts, parental controls to negociate surface time, and roadside assistance.

Customers who person the older Verizon Smart Family service, which started astatine $4.99 per month, can proceed utilizing it (Verizon conscionable won’t fto immoderate caller users motion up). The reworked Verizon Family work ties successful with the company’s different family-tracking products, such arsenic the Gizmo Watch 3 Adventure.