Best way to track iPhone

[jean675]

Hello,

I tried to track iPhone by scanning wifi network but the problem is something iPhone auto disable wifi to save battery. So the wifi tracking is not an option for iPhones.

I’m asking you what is the best solution you are using to track iPhone with the best accuracy and the best battery saving ?

Thanks

[Yuran (Anders Yuran)]

Have you seen this post?

Ping + Arp custom_component device tracker

This is my first contribution to home-assistan comunity with a custom component device tracker. I am reading lots of complaining about how accurate or not is nmap or ping for device tracking. I am been testing by myself both of them to track my iOS devices (iPhone/iPad) and these are my findings: When a iOS device is turned on, connected to a wifi ap but not active (sleep), the device remain connected but after a few seconds it will start dropping icmp packets, not all of them but most of the…

[areks]

This was developed specifically with iPhones in mind: [monitor] Reliable, Multi-User, Distributed Bluetooth Occupancy/Presence Detection

[jean675]

Awesome, I will try it as it is very simple !