A family map that explains itself
See current or last-known location alongside freshness, accuracy, battery, connectivity, and location-permission status.
Private iPhone beta
Know they're safe. Keep their location private.
Carbon Family gives parents the awareness they need—without giving Carbon a readable database of where their family goes.
iOS 17+7 or 30-day historyEnd-to-end encrypted
A private TestFlight beta is being prepared; there is no App Store download yet.
Family awareness
The useful parts of family location sharing.
Designed for parents of children roughly ages 9–16, with enough context to understand whether a location is fresh and trustworthy.
Places and useful alerts
Create the Places your family actually uses, choose Place-alert recipients, and receive encrypted low- and critical-battery updates.
7 or 30-day history
Review an encrypted location timeline using the retention window selected for your family.
Walking, driving, and live viewing
Adaptive location sharing preserves useful movement, speed, course, and bounded live-map updates while reducing idle GPS work.
Sharing goes both ways
Adults can choose whether children see their approximate or precise location and whether that access includes history.
Secure setup and recovery
Nearby QR setup, shareable universal links, device approval, and a Recovery Kit keep family membership intentional.
A candid privacy boundary
Sensitive family data is encrypted. The service is not invisible.
Carbon Family's private-sync path encrypts sensitive payloads before they leave a family device. Carbon still operates the account, membership, device, and encrypted-relay control plane.
Encrypted
Carbon cannot read
- Current and historical locations
- Device health and low-battery events
- Places, subscriptions, and Place events
- Profile photos
- Adult sharing policies and shared locations
Operational
Carbon can access
- Carbon account and family membership records
- Child profiles and device-enrollment metadata
- Encrypted-envelope routing, size, and timing metadata
- Security and operational records needed to run the beta
Help us prove it on real family phones.
Background reliability, notification delivery, recovery, and battery performance are still being validated. Carbon Family is a beta—not an emergency service or a substitute for calling for help.
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