Share Now or Share Together? Two Ways to Keep Your Dog Safe

TRAKSIFY Protect gives you two very different ways to let other people see your dog’s location — and knowing which one to reach for makes all the difference. One is built for a single person, for a little while. The other is built for a group, for a shared outing. Here is when to use each, exactly how to set them up, and how both can help you avoid a lost dog in the first place — or get one back quickly if the worst happens.

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Use case 1 — “Single Device” share: one person, for a limited time

The scenario: You’re heading out for the day and a friend, neighbour or domestic helper is looking after your dog at home. You want them to be able to see where your dog is — for example if the dog slips out of the garden while being walked — but only for today, and only that one person. You don’t want to add them to anything permanent, and you don’t want to hand over your account.

This is exactly what Single Device sharing is for. You share one device with one person, and you decide how long the share lasts — a few hours, a day, a week. When the time is up, access ends automatically. You can also stop it yourself at any moment. It is the digital equivalent of lending a spare key for the afternoon and having it disappear from their pocket at midnight.

Why it helps prevent a lost dog: the person on the ground can open the live map the instant something feels off — the dog isn’t back from the garden, the front door was left open — instead of calling you and waiting. Minutes matter. And if the dog does go missing, your helper can follow the tracker’s live position and last-known location directly, and share exactly where they’ve searched, all without ever needing access to your full account.

How to share a single device

1. Open TRAKSIFY Protect and go to the device you want to share.
2. Tap Share, then choose how long the share should last (for example “1 day”).
3. If the other person is with you, let them scan the QR code straight from your screen. If they’re elsewhere, tap Send by email and enter their address — they’ll receive an invitation with a QR code and a link.
4. They open the invitation in the free TRAKSIFY Protect app, tap Confirm, and enter the one-time code (you receive it by email and push, and pass it to them). This last step confirms you approved the share.
5. Done. They now see your dog on their map until the time you set runs out — or until you stop the share.

The whole thing takes under a minute, and nothing is left switched on afterwards.

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Use case 2 — “Private Community”: a group, on a shared outing

The scenario: Five dog owners meet for a Sunday walk along the beach or through the woods. The dogs run ahead, double back, disappear behind a dune, chase a scent into the trees. Everyone is loosely watching everyone else’s dog, but nobody can see them all. This is where a single one-to-one share falls short — you’d need ten separate shares, and still no one would have the full picture.

A Private Community solves this. Everyone joins one temporary, invitation-only group and shares their dog on one shared live map. Every member sees every dog at once. And because the group knows it’s a walk, not a permanent arrangement, the community can be set to end automatically when the outing is over.

Why it helps prevent a lost dog: the community doesn’t just show positions — it watches the group for you. If one dog drifts too far from the others, members get a separation alert. If a tracker raises an SOS or fall alarm, everyone in the group is notified, not just the owner who might be a hundred metres away and out of earshot. So the moment a dog strays toward a road or vanishes over a ridge, the nearest person — not just the owner — knows immediately and can react. That head start is often the difference between “we caught up with him” and “he was gone before we noticed.”

How to set up a Private Community for a walk

1. In Settings → Community, tap Create and give it a name (for example “Sunday Beach Walk”).
2. Set an end date/time so the community closes itself when the walk is done, and add the devices you want to share.
3. Tap Invite and send an invitation to each owner by email. They accept in their own app and choose which of their devices to share.
4. Everyone opens the Community map — all the dogs appear together, live.
5. Enjoy the walk. Proximity and separation alerts, plus any SOS or fall alarms, are shared across the whole group automatically. Each owner can pause their own sharing at any time, and the community closes on its own at the end.

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Which one should I choose?

• One person watching your dog while you’re away — a helper, a neighbour, a dog sitter — for a set period → Single Device share.
• A group out together — a walk, a hike, a day at the beach — where everyone should see every dog and be warned if one wanders → Private Community.

A simple way to remember it: share a device when you’re handing responsibility to one person for a while; create a community when you’re sharing responsibility with a group for an outing.

Both are private, temporary, and in your control

Whichever you choose, the same principles apply: you decide who sees your dog, you decide for how long, access ends by itself, and you can stop it at any time. Nothing stays switched on in the background, and no one ever gets your account. That’s tracking to protect — never to stalk — and it’s what turns a nerve-wracking “where’s the dog?” moment into a quick glance at a map.

You’ll need the free TRAKSIFY Protect app and a TRAKSIFY tracker. Don’t have one yet? Get the PACK.

Version 3.9.0 is rolling out now on the App Store and Google Play. It’s a release about context: understanding what a tracker did over a whole week rather than a single day, sharing a device with exactly the right people in exactly the right way, and making sure the app speaks to you clearly wherever you are.

What’s new in 3.9.0

• Weekly Activity report — a seven-day view of distance, active time, journeys and active days, with automatic comparison to the previous week.
• Redesigned device sharing — the screens for accepting and viewing a shared device now show the owner’s alias, photo, device type, online status, last update, the sharing period and who shared it.
• Sharing clean-up — unsharing a device now removes it from both sides immediately; no more “sharing ended” cards lingering in your list, and no more being logged out when you unshare.
• Live translations — corrections and additions to any of the six app languages now reach you automatically, without waiting for an app update.
• Event names, always readable — every device event and alarm type can report now has a proper name in every language, and anything new is displayed cleanly rather than as a raw code.
• Stability — fixed the shared-device map failing to load on Android and showing an error on iOS.

Your week at a glance

Until now, the Activities screen showed one day at a time. That’s ideal for answering “where did Bruce go on Tuesday?” — less so for “is he getting enough exercise?” or “how much did I drive this week?”

The new Weekly Activity report answers those questions directly. Pick a device and a week and you’ll see:

• Distance, Active Time, Journeys and Active Days for the week as a whole.
• Week-on-week comparison — each figure carries an up/down badge against the previous week, so a quieter or busier week stands out immediately.
• A day-by-day breakdown — the average per active day, the most active day, and a bar for each day. Tap any day to open the familiar daily view.
• Profile-aware wording — a pet’s week reads “Walk” and “In a vehicle”; a vehicle’s week reads “Driving”. The categories match your device’s profile, exactly as on the daily screen.

The numbers are calculated with the same method as the daily screen, so a week here is precisely the sum of its days — no surprises when you drill down. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in your local time zone.

Sharing a device vs. joining a Private Community

TRAKSIFY Protect now offers two ways to let other people see a tracker, and they’re designed for different situations. Here’s how to choose.

Shared Device is for lending one tracker’s location to one person for a limited time. You choose the device, set an expiry date, and hand over a QR code or link. The other person scans it, confirms with a one-time code, and sees that device — and only that device — on their map until the share expires or you revoke it. Think: your dog-sitter for the weekend, a friend borrowing the car, a colleague tracking a delivery.

Private Community is for a group that tracks together, on an ongoing basis. A family, a walking group, a small fleet team. Members join the community once and can then see each other’s devices on a shared map, receive each other’s SOS and fall alarms, message one another, and pause their own sharing whenever they want privacy. Membership is managed by the community owner, ownership can be transferred, and everyone keeps control of what they contribute.

In short:

	Shared Device	Private Community
Who sees it	One person	All members
What they see	One device	Everyone’s devices
How long	Until the expiry date you set	Until they leave or are removed
Alarms	No	SOS and fall alarms relayed to members
Messaging	No	Yes, between members
Best for	Temporary, one-off access	An ongoing group

Both are available from the app’s main menu, and a device can be in a community and shared individually at the same time.

Translations that improve without an update

TRAKSIFY Protect is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. Keeping six languages perfect across hundreds of screens is a never-ending job, and until now every correction — even a single word — meant waiting for the next app release.

From 3.9.0, that’s no longer the case. The app now checks for updated translations each time it starts and applies them straight away. If you spot a missing or awkward translation, tell us and it can be fixed the same day, for everyone, without an app update.

This also lays the groundwork for adding further languages down the line. If there’s a language you’d like to see, let us know.

Also in this release

• Unsharing a device as the owner no longer signs you out of the app.
• Devices you’ve unshared disappear from the recipient’s list straight away.
• Fixed the shared-device map loading endlessly on Android, and an error message on iOS when opening a shared device.
• Device events now use the correct icons for stopped, inactive, overspeed, fuel and maintenance events.

Update now

Version 3.9.0 is available today. Open the App Store or Google Play and update TRAKSIFY Protect to get started — your existing devices, communities and shares carry over unchanged.

As always, we’d love to hear what you think. Reach us through the app or at the usual support channels.

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Version 3.9.0 (build 138). Requires iOS 15 / Android 8 or later.