My wife and I have, for many years, used and relied on Google family location sharing in Google maps, to see each other's location. it worked well for many years, while we all had Android phones.

Recently, my wife has moved to an iPhone, and it no longer works. iOS is just a **** when it comes to arbitrarily putting apps to sleep. Despite giving Google maps every single permission and set it on the background always on for location etc, it still doesn't work properly.

Sometimes, after a few days of not using, I'll try to check if she made it safely to work, and it will say last reported location like 8 hours ago.

We then tried using Home assistant for this. again, same thing happens. after a few days, location just stops being reported. With Google maps it was instant.

Many people have recommended Life360 app, but I thought I'd check for a good self-hosted one before trying yet another proprietary third party app.