Family Ping Check-In
Family safety & SOS location
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Know your mum got home okay. One button reaches you if she needs help.
You call your mum. It rings and rings. Is she out at the shops, or has something happened?
Family Ping answers that question before it turns into worry. She keeps Family Ping on her phone, you keep it on yours. When she gets home, you'll know. If she needs help, one button reaches you.
WHAT YOU SEE
• Whether she is at home, and how long ago her phone was last heard from
• A note when she leaves or gets back to the place she chose
• Her battery, and whether her phone is still connected — often the first sign something is off
• Her last known place, one tap away in your own maps app
• An "I need help" alert that rings your phone loudly
• An "I am okay" she can send whenever she likes
• A quick check that tells you if your own phone is quietly muting her alerts
WHAT SHE DECIDES
Family Ping is made for adults and set up together, on two phones. She installs it on her own phone, picks her own safe place, and can stop sharing whenever she wants. Her phone tells her every time you ask where she is. There is no history of where she has been — only the most recent place, shown with how old it is.
SAFE-PLACE ALERTS USE LOCATION IN THE BACKGROUND
To tell you when she leaves or returns to her safe place, Family Ping uses her phone's location in the background, including when the app is closed. That is all it is used for. She is told before her phone asks, and she can turn it off at any time in her phone's settings.
GOOD TO KNOW
Family Ping is not an emergency service and does not call emergency services. "I need help" reaches you, and no one else. Alerts depend on the phones, their batteries and the network, and can be delayed or fail to arrive.
Free. No ads. Nothing sold. In English, Svenska and Română.
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Family Ping 1.1.1 (39) is a reliability update.
Alerts
- Fixed a real issue: SOS and other alerts could arrive silently — visible on screen but with no sound — while the receiving phone had Family Ping open. Alerts now sound correctly whether the app is open, in the background, or closed.
- New: a "Test SOS delivery now" check on the readiness screen. If your phone's own settings are quietly muting Family Ping alerts, this finds it and tells you exactly what to turn off, for your specific phone.
- iPhone: fixed a crash that could happen in the background when the family member left or came back to their safe place.
Other
- The app now stays in portrait view; it no longer rotates to landscape.
Terms
- Updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. When you set up a phone, you now agree to the Terms on the screen where you choose its role. You can read both there and in Settings.
As before: SOS alerts do not call emergency services. The app shows the latest known position only, with no location history.
The developer, Valentin Sandu, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Other Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Editerra AB
- Size
- 35.6 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 2 more
- English, Romanian, Swedish
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Editerra AB