Guides

How family GPS actually works

How the radios work, what coverage looks like, and how to locate a child who has no phone.

• Does a GPS tracker work indoors?

  Indoors the sky is a roof. Kin One can use Wi-Fi positioning as a fallback. You still get a useful pin. You do not get a floor plan.

• When the GPS tracker is not updating

  Last-seen an hour ago is a clue, not always a funeral. Split a stale pin from a device that is actually gone.

• GPS trackers on airplanes

  Airports have towers. Cabins at 30,000 feet do not, in any useful family-GPS sense. This page is the gate, not the jet stream.

• GPS tracker privacy: how Kin is built

  The legal page is statutes. This page is the product: who sees the pin, whether a trail is kept, and what you can turn off.

• GPS versus Bluetooth trackers

  Two different radios, two different jobs. A short guide to what “tracker” means on a product box.

• How accurate are GPS trackers?

  Metres on a good sky, a building when the sky goes away. Marketing that promises a bedroom door is selling a different radio.

• How do GPS trackers work?

  Satellites, a SIM, and an app. What the hardware actually does — including the bits Kin One refuses to do.

• How to set up a GPS tracker

  Most locators fail at the SIM. Kin One’s is inside and paid for. Setup is charge, scan, name, one place.

• How to talk to your child about a GPS tracker

  A locator they know about stays on. A secret in a hem is a different ethic — and Kin will not help you hide it.

• How to track your child without a phone

  A decision guide for families who do not want a smartphone in a child’s pocket yet still want a location. Hardware is one option, not the only one.

• Is it legal to GPS track your child?

  A family locator is not a stalking kit. This page is the consent line Kin is built on — and the questions a page like this cannot answer for your state.

• What happens if the GPS tracker is lost

  A locator finds the wearer while it is worn, charged, and on the network. Once it is in a sofa or a lost-and-found, you have a last pin — not a magic ring.