I have an Android and need to track an iphone

[wrhatt]

I currently have a galaxy S3. My wife and son have iPhones. I'm getting ready to upgrade my phone and would like to stick with android. The problem is I can't track my wife and son on their iPhones. I've tried the usual apps such as family tracker, life 360, family locator, and such but they don't work. And by don't work I mean my family simply turns those apps off on their iPhones. And the reason is they don't like having to update these apps or getting the ads sent to them on their phones from these apps. Two times my son has lost his iphone and we have had to call his mother for her to track it down for him. Is there an app I can get for my android phone that will track their iPhones that runs in the background and won't get their attention? Thank you.

 

[Slug]

A couple of suggestions for you:

Find iDevices
xFi Locator Lite

Both communicate directly with iCloud servers rather than via browser, and although I've not used either personally both were recommended by iOS users in a similar discussion on Apple's own forum.

 

[Stuntman]

You can just use the Find My iPhone service. All you need is a browser. Login to the web site on your phone browser with the Apple ID of the phone and it will find it for you. There is no Android app for this service. Just use any web browser on your Android phone.

 

[funkylogik]

Can't Google maps still do this?

 

[Slug]

There is no Android app for this service.

Apart from the two I linked to above.

 

[wrhatt]

I was almost there but icloud says my browser isn't supported. I remember when my Galaxy S3 could do it all. I guess I really need to update my phone. Thanks everyone for the help.

 

[wrhatt]

Thank you for the suggestions Slug. I went with the pay version of xFi Locator and showed my son I could track him. He asked why I needed to track him, didn't I trust him? I said "in the words of a great man; trust but verify."

 

[Stuntman]

I was almost there but icloud says my browser isn't supported. I remember when my Galaxy S3 could do it all. I guess I really need to update my phone. Thanks everyone for the help.

Which browser are you using? You could also try other browsers.