Questions, answered honestly.

Typically 5–20 meters outdoors with a clear sky. We use Apple's CoreLocation services — the same plumbing Apple Maps and Find My use. Accuracy can drop to 50+ meters indoors, in basements, or at the edge of WiFi coverage. The map shows a translucent circle around each kid's pin representing the accuracy radius, so you can tell at a glance whether a fix is "I know exactly where they are" or "they're somewhere in this block."

It depends on what your kid is doing. Stationary at home: every few minutes via low-power location updates. Walking or driving: continuously. When you tap a kid in the app to "watch live," we ask their phone for a fresh fix every 30 seconds for up to 5 minutes — perfect for "are they almost home?" moments. Tap the kid again to cancel.

Not significantly. We use Apple's "significant-location-change" service most of the time, which is the same low-power mode Find My uses (and which Apple specifically designed to be battery-friendly). We only switch to high-accuracy GPS during active trips and brief locate-now requests. In real-world testing, Orinn adds about 2–4% to a typical day's battery use.

Yes — anywhere the kid's iPhone has cellular signal, location updates flow normally. If they're in a dead zone (subway, basement, rural area), the kid's phone caches updates locally and sends them once signal returns. The map will show "Updated 4 minutes ago" so you know the position is from before they went underground.

An Orinn+ feature for the routine moments — school commute, soccer practice, walk home from a friend's. You tap "Watch over" on a kid's card, pick a destination from your saved places, and Orinn pulls a route and follows the kid's live pin along it. You get a notification if they take a different way, if they're running late past the expected arrival, and when they arrive.

What makes it Orinn-shaped: Orinn learns your kid's routine over time — entirely on your device, never on our servers — and after a couple of weeks it'll start suggesting "Aanya usually heads to School around now, tap to follow." One tap to start; the prediction never leaves your phone.

It's built for everyday peace of mind, not as a kidnapping detector. The right tool for that conversation is the police, not a phone app.

An Orinn+ feature for the moments your kid is walking somewhere alone (home from school, to a friend's). They tap "Walk Me Home" in their app and pick a destination; you get a push notification, the route appears on your map, and you'll see another notification if they go off-route or stop too long. It auto-ends when they arrive. Designed for safety, not surveillance — your kid initiates it.

Note: Walk Me Home is kid-initiated ("I want someone to know I'm walking"); Watch Over is parent-initiated ("I'd like to follow them to school today"). Most families use both for different moments.

Places you care about — Home, School, a friend's house, the soccer field. Drop a pin and give it a name. You'll get a quiet ping when a kid arrives or leaves. Free covers up to 5 saved places; Orinn+ is unlimited. Names are private to your family; we never use them for analytics.

Your kid taps the SOS button in their app (or a Home Screen widget). Every parent and caregiver in the family gets an immediate push notification with their current location and a tap-to-call link. The kid's phone keeps sending fresh location for the next 5 minutes so you can navigate to them in real time. SOS is on the Free plan — we never paywall safety features.

Orinn+ feature. When a kid drives somewhere (we detect it automatically from speed + motion), we record the trip's route, speed, distance, and any moments where the phone detected unusually hard braking or acceleration. You can review the trip on the History tab — useful for new drivers and for parents who want context, not surveillance. We don't classify or score your kid's driving against other kids; the events are just shown to you.

Yes. Your kid can enable "Privacy mode" in their app for 30/60/90-minute windows. While active, you'll see a privacy badge on their pin instead of a precise location. We think this matters for trust — the kid is being honest with you that they want privacy for an evening rather than spoofing or turning the app off. Coming with v2: parental override for safety scenarios.

Three things, in order: (1) every parent and caregiver gets a push notification with the kid's current location; (2) the kid's phone keeps sending high-accuracy location updates for the next 5 minutes so you can navigate to them in real time; (3) the SOS event is logged in the family's Alerts feed so you can see it later. SOS works on the Free plan and is never paywalled.

We keep the last-known location in the app. If their phone dies on the way home, you'll still see where they were last seen and the timestamp ("Updated 12 minutes ago"). The pin shows a faded state so you know it's not live. Once their phone is back on, location resumes automatically — no action needed from either of you.

Sign in on a new iPhone with the same email; your family is restored automatically. Use Apple's Find My to disable the lost device if needed — Orinn doesn't store anything sensitive locally on your phone, but disabling the lost device is good hygiene.

Orinn detects this within a few hours and surfaces an "App offline" badge on that kid's card in your map. You can tap it for the steps to re-pair (it's the same 6-digit code flow as initial setup, takes about 60 seconds).

No. Orinn helps you reach your kid faster and know where they are — that's it. In an actual emergency, call 911 (or your local equivalent). The SOS feature is for "I need a parent now," not "I need first responders." We're explicit about this in the app, too.

Most common causes: their phone is in a dead zone (subway, basement, rural area), they have airplane mode on, or they're in a building with poor cell + WiFi coverage. Tap the kid card and hit "Locate now" to wake their phone with a silent push — that usually pulls a fresh fix within 5–10 seconds. If it consistently lags, check that they have Cellular Data on for the Orinn app in their iPhone Settings.

Long-press the Locate tile on a kid's card to open per-kid diagnostics. It'll show whether their phone is reachable on push, when their last fix was, and any error from the most recent attempt. The most common fixes: (1) they need to open the Orinn app once after a phone reboot to re-register for pushes, (2) they're in a dead zone, or (3) Background App Refresh is off in their Settings.

Coming soon. We'll add a "Download my data" action in Settings → Account that produces a ZIP of every place, trip, and message in your family — JSON format, machine-readable. If you need it before we ship that, email hello@orinn.app and we'll do it manually.

Yes. Email hello@orinn.app and tell us what you're looking at. We're happy to share security rule definitions, data-flow diagrams, and what we collect at each layer. We'd rather be audited than trusted on faith.

Email security@orinn.app with details. We'll acknowledge within 24 hours and triage from there. We'll happily credit responsible disclosure publicly on this site if you want; we'll keep it private if you don't.