I've been waiting for a location based system that will work on the phones I have on my AT&T plan. Not to spy on anyone, but just for piece of mind. My original thoughts were to use it to find out where my kid is when he's out playing soccer in the neighborhood or finding out where my wife is when she hasn't made it home from a long dinner with friends.

Enter AT&T Family Map. I saw they are now offering this feature for a free 30 day trial, and it sounded just like what I wanted. I signed up online and chose a plan. I went with the $9.99/mo plan that allows you to locate up to 2 phones, and that's all that I needed.

After signup, I proceeded to configure the phones I wanted to locate. You enter in the numbers and assign them a name. Once you've done this, each phone gets a text message stating that they can now be located. In this initial text, it sends them a confirmation code that you have to enter into the config screen online before you can actually locate them. This keeps you from spying on someone without them knowing about it.

Once you've done this, voila', you can now locate your phone.

Locating Phones

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