Just following up on the tracker story if anyone's interested.
We were using both the Android Find My Phone and Google Map's location sharing capability.
We had initial issues as dad had an uncanny ability to turn on airplane mode and then in one instance, turn off mobile data on his phone. These obviously prevented any tracking. Removing airplane mode from the shortcut list helped a lot though.
We also found that Find My Phone seems to fail if the phone is not used periodically. Often it will not update until dad actually does something with his phone, which can be days sometimes.
The location sharing in maps seems to work better, but several times it will also fail to update on demand, and we will instead get a location that is an hour or more out of date.
This also doesn't help the fact that mom doesn't have a phone, only dad. While they are usually together, that isn't always the case.
We just got the airtags and I've removed the speakers successfully. Going to drop them off with my parents today and see how it goes.
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