SkieCan I see where my child's phone has been today?
Yes. Besides the latest position, the Skie dashboard keeps a recent trail of where the phone or tablet has been, drawn on the map. It is a limited recent history, not a permanent diary, and it helps you answer what happened on the way home from school.
A single dot on a map tells you where the device is now. A trail tells you how it got there. Skie records the device's reported positions and shows the recent ones as a path, so you can see whether the route home was the usual one or whether there was a stop somewhere unexpected.
The trail is limited to a recent period. Skie does not offer a long-term movement archive today, and retention settings that you control are not available yet. It is something the team is working on, with no date to give.
The trail is made of the positions the device actually reported. If the phone was off, out of signal or had no data for a stretch, there will be gaps, and the line may jump between two points. That is a limit of any phone-based tracking and is worth remembering before you read too much into a short gap.
The same trail is used if a device ever goes missing. When you put a lost phone or tablet into lost mode, the trail becomes part of the evidence pack you can hand to the police, along with the IMEI, serial number and SIM details.
Tip: look at the trail with your child rather than behind their back. Showing how it works, and why, goes a long way towards trust.