I'm looking for a solution for users of one Android phone and one iPhone to be able to see each other's location at all times.
The "find my" app does the job nicely between two iPhones but, of course, won't suffice if one iPhone is replaced.
Google Maps offers the possibility of this, but I'm told that it is somehow hard to understand/use for this purpose on the iPhone.
I have set up an Owntracks server (https://owntracks.org/) which could potentially be useful, but having tested it on two iPhones only one of them will report its location. I recall trying it a few years ago and running into similar issues.
There are third party services like Life360; I think this would prove easy enough for the iPhone user, but they sell location data (https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/...location-data-on-its-tens-of-millions-of-user) whereas I think Apple and Google keep it for themselves (still not great but less bad).
Can anyone think of any other ways this might be accomplished?
The "find my" app does the job nicely between two iPhones but, of course, won't suffice if one iPhone is replaced.
Google Maps offers the possibility of this, but I'm told that it is somehow hard to understand/use for this purpose on the iPhone.
I have set up an Owntracks server (https://owntracks.org/) which could potentially be useful, but having tested it on two iPhones only one of them will report its location. I recall trying it a few years ago and running into similar issues.
There are third party services like Life360; I think this would prove easy enough for the iPhone user, but they sell location data (https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/...location-data-on-its-tens-of-millions-of-user) whereas I think Apple and Google keep it for themselves (still not great but less bad).
Can anyone think of any other ways this might be accomplished?