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by gausswho 335 days ago
My current approach to this on my GrapheneOS phone is to use GpsLogger, writing to a directory that uses Syncthing-Fork to regularly send data to a computer at home. If the phone is lost I open the gpx files in Dawarich. Pretty elaborate clunky solution but works well and doesn't require Play Services.
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in case you also have home assistant, you can enable location reporting too. you can request precise lock remotely and use it for buch of automations.

I found my wife phone that way

perfect for my family who has a mix of android and iphone. getting one pane of glass to locate all of them while also preserving privacy by self hosting the historical data isn't something I knew existed until now, thanks!
I primarily use find my device to ring my phone even when it's on silent.