Who else tracks spouse with FordPass?

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Okay, before you judge me, please know SHE started this, and for us, it's all fun and games anyhow.

Before I even thought about using this feature to track anyone, I got nailed. Just a few days after buying the MME, I'm enjoying a lunchtime pool game with a buddy and my wife gallivants right in, unannounced. Like a weird coincidence. As it were, she found me tinkering with FordPass. (Worse yet, she whupped us both shooting a game of cut-throat!)

Sorta turned into a game of catching each other doing something when the other wasn't invited. Like when I caught here at Shoe Carnival when she was supposedly visiting her sister.

I guess a person could use this app for tracking someone for less playful reasons. Maybe a family member borrowed the car, or maybe car is at the shop like @Duchess posted. Possibly you would track your car if it was stolen? This isn't new tech, Lojack's been in the market a long time. Various bluetooth / wifi / GPS trackers been around awhile. But FordPass makes it seem more mainstream, more accessible than other options. I personally never used any other device in this manner.

Curious about your experiences, have you been busted or tracked anyone? What happened when you did?
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Same as @Logal727 , my husband and I track each other from iphones and if he cant find me he would open up the ford app. We have no issues with each other knowing and tracking location. He has gotten drunk once, got dropped off in the drive way and then somehow wandered off somewhere down the road. He called me in the middle of the night saying he has no idea where he was at. I tracked him down via iphone , to find him a few houses down walking in circles.
 

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I would track my human, but since I go everywhere the car goes there is no purpose. 🤣🐩
 


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Lol, I don't and never even thought about it.
 
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I track my car, but I don't track people, nor do I think it's healthy to track people. I also don't look at my significant others phone or computer - ever. Respect and trust are far more valuable to me. While you can try to justify "safety" as the primary reason for tracking someone, I fundamentally disagree and based on everything I've seen in my line of work, you're likely endangering them.

The extent of tracking my car is home/away for automations and I'm the only one who drives it.

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I track my car, but I don't track people, nor do I think it's healthy to track people. I also don't look at my significant others phone or computer - ever. Respect and trust are far more valuable to me. While you can try to justify "safety" as the primary reason for tracking someone, I fundamentally disagree and based on everything I've seen in my line of work, you're likely endangering them.

The extent of tracking my car is home/away for automations and I'm the only one who drives it.

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I'm not looking at where my wife is every second of the day, but it's nice to know when she's on the way home and also my kids we've got Find My turned on. Everything is behind nonSMS 2FA. Definitely to each their own, but we don't do stalker-level.
 

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Sometimes my wife gets lost, she has no sense of direction. Her GPS does not always seem to work properly, so she may call me and ask me for help getting home. In those cases tracking her might be useful.
 

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My wife doesn’t drive my MME but I installed FordPass on her phone and she gets all the alerts I see. I asked her if I should turn them off for her and she wants to see them. Guess it gives her comfort even if she gets alerts early in the morning that charge is complete or car is ready or something like that. She nicked named my car “little blue.” 🚙
 

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Never used it for my wife (we share iPhone location for that :p) but when I bought my car, I went ahead and paid to have the front windows tinted. I originally planned to have Car Toys do it, but the dealer offered a competive price, rolled it into the financing, and assured me "they know the car so well, I should go with the dealer instead of a third party." I have plenty of faith in Car Toys, but the dealer's closer and the price is fair, so I schedule the tinting with the dealership. So I go to the dealership for my appointment two weeks later and hand over the keys and sit in the waiting room. About 30 minutes later, I'm curious if they've started working on my car so I pull up FordPass to see if they'd brought it to the service center yet and the location comes back 7 miles down the road in the middle of a Car Toys garage. 🤦‍♂️
 

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Same as @Logal727 , my husband and I track each other from iphones and if he cant find me he would open up the ford app. We have no issues with each other knowing and tracking location. He has gotten drunk once, got dropped off in the drive way and then somehow wandered off somewhere down the road. He called me in the middle of the night saying he has no idea where he was at. I tracked him down via iphone , to find him a few houses down walking in circles.
Well, this guy for sure needs this feature... lol
 
 




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