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Pros and Cons of Truecaller’s Guardians app for personal safety

In today’s time when you or we travel or going outside alone then yours family will care for you and then they wish they should know yours location and where are you and they want to know it then there is Guardians app which can help you and plenty of others who care for you. Especially, ladies when they are outside back home their family always worried about safety and with Guardians from Truecaller you can locate exact location of yours family member at any point of time you wish to.

With this app they can be linked with you even if they are outside.This app provide safety wen you are on move. It provides pinpointed location to near and dear ones and in this way you stay connected with friends and families. While providing location its Google Map integration is just like perfect and there is no confusion about it at any point of time.

It would be nice if location of map  comes in the form of satellite form. As with it color and pictures exact locations can be known. But even if normal map view, below you can see exact location address. Even it will show the person is moving then the pointer will move forward towards the direction of the road. If they travel by car then the pointer will move forward. The precondition is that Guardians App should be installed on both devices, and both devices must have fairly good internet connectivity.

Personal Safety App, Guardians: Pros and Cons

If your Phone has guardians and if it is lost still you can find its exact location and location of yours phone and there is higher chance of phone recovery. In the new version of Guardians app now you have option to see the route through satellite view. Reach to profile settings of Guardians app and then turn on satellite view. There is more scope for location detection in case yours phone is lost and it is expected that  in the future dates for sure there might have been a new app for detection of location in the case you lost yours phone.

Truecaller is currently going on research and development and in the following years we might find some unique app that could track when your phone is lost or stolen. In Guardians app ypu have three options such as one is for SOS, watch me and watch contact. If you share your location public then there are volunteers who can help you who are nearby in the area when you are facing difficulties. Guardians app apart from providing location, it provides batter percentages, phone’s ringing status such as if it is at the level of muted then it will show this information too on yours guardians app.

You can know what the status of phone of yours is near and dear ones. It will also provide signal strength of phone of other guardians phone, you can pin or and unpin guardians and in this way, you are connected always with yours relatives. This app uses more memory and for this app with lesser amount of RAM the phone might be hanged and for this it is wiser to use with high ram and memory phones. It is a good idea to provide guardians to create geo fence or commonly moving directions and when guardians move out from such geo fence or boundaries then it will alert other guardians linked with phone.

There are some other apps also which provide similar information such as that of location sharing but most of them are not free but Guarduans app is and it is available both for Android and Apple ecosystems. If you go for forever sharing then you can monitor other guardians always but this comes with price as it can use heavy battery usages as you have to allow the app to run in background and free from battery saver. I installed guardians app on my daddy’s phone which is Samsung M 51 and it has huge battery of almost 7000 or 8000 amp and other guardians phone is of mine which Samung Galaxy A12. I make it forever sharing with daddy’s phone and vice versa. When daddy is on travel I can find daddy’s location but the problem is even if  Galaxy M 51 has higher battery but battery drains becomes faster and that is also not so good for journey as at any point of time while you are outside you need yours phone to stay charge everytime.

Its live location is not exact but it can be approximately within 300 meters. It will provide approximate direction which provide you an idea of location in which you are moving. Even if it is not precise but still you find an approximate distance while using Guardians. When you are not using your phone most of times location shows prior to 2 minutes and it refreshed in real time when you are using phone.

The interface is very intuitive and very easy to operate. You can easily send SOS or forever sharing option can be enabled with ease. But in order to enable it you will have to enter into Guardians app. There is no way any hardware buttons of the phone can be assigned for dedicated SOS button, though for forever sharing you can add home screen widget in order to create short cut to it. I just review it as and when guardians is installed  on Apple phone and one guardians on the android mobile then it seems that location accuracy changes or refreshes quite late than when it is compared with android location updates.

In addition to this Guardians app can move towards provide total distance covered by Guardians, number of location they travelled. When I try guardian with my sibling both at the house, surprisingly my location shows me at the neighbor’s house and my sibling at our house and this means that there is something in and around of location detection but when considering GPS and other coordinates that can deviated with slow deviation and this means that we should always use ours approximation in addition to observing and finalizing location.

For SOS settings in addition to current feature, by using front and back camera photos should be taken and then send back to linked guardians as well as automatically voice recording should be enabled on the phone so that emergency situational  talks can be received by connected guardians. Google Maps has similar function and if you believe yours data security then you should go for Google Maps instead of Guardians from Truecaller. In order to make Guardians app to perform efficient battery preservation, automatically when you go out it should start sending locations to other linked guardians, and when you are at home then it should automatically run in the background and sending location information.

Then, when other guardians and you are outside and then for sure other guardians wants know when you are outside and reaching at home, other guardians who are outside should also know your location but when you reach home but when guardians automatically switched off then they will not be able to know your exact location. So, while developing this feature Guardians developers must consider this as well. The important consideration should be looked into is about how to preserve battery so that it will not drain phone resources. I do hope that this app should also work when you are offline and internet connection is not working so that always on sharing can work efficiently.

The best thing about Guardians app is that it does not contain any advertisements and it is free and this means that in order to guard yours near and dear ones you will not have to spend any money to install it on both the devices. It would be nice if there is emergency chat options that should work without internet connectivity so that we should not heavily dependence upon internet connectivity and should know linked guardians location without any difficulties. It is a superb application when you are travelling alone yours family will always stay connected with Guardians app. Sometimes, location is shown in Google Maps location short cut then it will be difficult to know the name of the place and some other time exact location can be seen in Guardians app. Other important parameters that yours phone should not be in the state of flight mode or switched off as with these two settings Guardians will not work.

Finally if you want to receive notification all the time then you should pin that person and in this way, you will get every updates of linked guardians when linked guardians changes location and in this way all yours near and dear ones stay connected and stay in safe and secure.



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