How To Turn An Old iPhone Into A Car Tracker
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2024
- Watch us in this video turn an old iPhone that's no longer being used into a very easy and useful car tracker.
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Hi I just followed your Video. Did everything that you instructed except the electrics, had another option on my car . It all works perfectly.My Compliment to you.Well put together Graphics and Video, Many thank's from a Brit living in Germany.
I been using this method since find iphone app was created! Thanks for the upload 👍🏻
Thanks for this dude, will be sorting it into my van!
Just done this on my own car today works great thanks again.
That’s great to hear Brian. I’m glad it worked for you :)
This was extremely helpful using my old iPhone 5s on camper van. However ‘find my friends App’ no longer available for later models, so used ‘find my’ app, no charges and same principle. (Used find my friend app on old phone still).
Fantastic video mate. Many thanks all the way from New Zealand. Quick question, is it best to disable anything else in the tracker phone? Like auto updates for the iOS etc that might be problematic with the phone hidden in the car, or anything else?
Good question and thanks for the comment. I like to disable as much as I can just to avoid it accidentally using up the data. So typically, I’ll turn off everything in iCloud except fine my phone and disable and auto updates. Then I’ll set the phone to do not disturb mode and disable WiFi and Bluetooth. It just keeps it quiet behind wherever you hide it.
I got a new iPhone 7 Plus so I’m going to use my old 5s as a tracker. I’ll buy a prepaid nano SIM card and there’s a usb charge port inside the middle console. I’ll just put stuff over it the phone to hide it. Or I may just put the phone hidden inside the back seat pockets since I just want to track from a day to day basis. Now I wonder if I need to reset my 5s and add new number from new sim or maybe I don’t need to delete anything and use the new sim? I’ll see.
Good evening. Can you make the same but for Zero scooter or any Electric scooter so it will auto charge iphone from it while hidden.
Just setting up tracker for my camper. Since video recorded, there have been changes to the app- Find my friends is combined with find my phone. How do I add my tracker phone/email address now? Thank you so much
When you use iCloud and use phone finder, report it lost, not black listed. It should connect to any wifi around it.
You could add advice that there are several different fuses out there so you will need to buy the specific piggy back holder for your car.
Great video I want to do this with my own car. Any chance you can send me a link to where you bought the USB adapter. As all I get when I search is phone plug chargers? Thanks
Brian Cullen hi Brian good question. I’ve added a link in the video description for you from amazon uk. Thanks for watching.
Cheers thanks very much
hi. thanks and what about the internet ? does is need sim cart? and internet?
yes, you need to cheapest plan, it mentions it in the beginning
I don’t use my car too often, sometimes once a week due to WFH and a second car. Would charging the phone drain my car battery over time if I’m not running the car?
No
Good, but why the disturbing background «music»?
Hello! I'm trying to attach an old Samsung A5 to my car. The only problem I have that I don't know, how much data is those apps sending? So is it (for example) 1MB/day?
I'd probably say less than a few MB. You should be able to download an app (especially with it being an Android) to monitor data usage. It would be able to give you a more accurate answer than I could.
Thanks for reply! I have about 0,066€/Mb in this finnish prepaid. And the limit is 6€. So I have about 90Mb to use.
I was just wondering if this GPS app is just sending coordinates that is about 8-9 bytes (8 bytes without the decimal in coordinates), but if the app sends commercials, time, info from the phone or other metadata, it will increase the sent bytes. That is what I'm interested.
So the only thing here is to grab Kali and start monitoring my network? :D
Goes a little deep levels now, I have to admit.
You've probably answered this but i cant find the Find my friends app of find my app. Is there something im doing wrong?
Cancel that. Found it in my find my iphone part of my phone. Thanks.
If I turn off the Bluetooth can I still find the location??
How often do you have to top up? and do you have to take the phone out the car to top up?
It would all depend on your network. Mine is a rolling 30 day deal from an old phone. Many networks let you top up via an app. As for how often, it depends on how much data you have. However, pinging the phone to see where it is only uses a few kilobytes so even 100mb would last you ages.
If you’re in the UK, three is really good. Pay as you, go in 1.5 months, I have used 50p from £10 credit, with regular checking and testing. It’s something like 1p per MB, and it uses hardly any data.
Does the phone drain car battery with it being constantly on charge?
+Tony Thompson technically yes but the power consumption is so small that a car battery could power the phone for weeks on end. In the real world, there is absolutely nothing to worry about. Your alarm system most probably uses more power.
A car battery recharges it self with its being used which is why a car battery last really long
@@TorqueSteer Hey, do you think the overheating could be an issue and potentially burn your car?
Can’t you just use the find my iPhone app? Wondering if there is much difference
Yes. He is using a very old phone
Do yourself a favour and buy some crimping pliers! Seriously though, good video. Probably better to source the live from somewhere a little less obvious though, it would be good if one glance at the fuses didn't reveal a suspicious connection.
+rickwookie haha thanks. I'll try to invest in some :)
A hidden connection would be better. Although I doubt anyone wants to steal my £200 Astra.
Yeah, just like I thought that thieves would choose a new motorcycle over my 15 year old Kawasaki..
Dude. Drop the music
Can you track an iphone with an android phone?
Kind of. If you log into iCloud.com with a web browser, you can use the find my iPhone feature which would work. Just not as slick as iPhone > iPhone.
Torque Steer thats ok i want to put the iPhone in the car as a tracker. Just incase.
Torque Steer just tried that from android and it doesn't work. Icloud is not supported on android.
I’ll have a little check for you in a bit. See if I can come up with a solution.
What if the phone battery exploded, by by car
What if the car battery exploded ? bye bye phone.
That's true, I love the concept of this video but it does say that the max temperature an iphone could take is 45ºC that's really not much for a hot car
20 pounds for 3GB of data??
here in balkan you can get 30GB od data, and unlimited calls and texts for that price ...
i feel bad for you
alkokomi100 In finland i get unlimited data with 300/mb speed for 20 pounds.
Phones get hot if you always have it connected. In a hot summer day you could burn your car down.
Wrong I have used this method for over two years no problems
Unless you live in a cold area then yes but in Texas that doesn’t seem quite smart to do.
just use an airtag under a floor mat. much easier than all of this
just found my car all thanks to ITECHTOOLZ ON INSTA