Over three and a half years after household locator app Life360 acquired lost item tracker Tile for $205 million, the 2 companies are lastly fully integrated. On Wednesday, Life360 introduced that the item-finding capabilities of Tile, a competitor to Apple’s AirTag and different Bluetooth-based trackers, at the moment are out there from inside its foremost app.

The replace means customers will now have the ability to see the place relations are in actual time, in addition to their valuables, like their pockets, keys, baggage, and different objects. The change may even assist to centralize the separate person bases for the 2 apps by pushing Tile’s customers to undertake the Life360 app as their foremost monitoring instrument.

An organization consultant instructed TechCrunch that the built-in companies will start rolling out on Wednesday and can attain all customers over the subsequent few weeks.

Because the rollout progresses, Tile customers will quickly see a message of their app directing them to Life360, whereas Life360 customers will see a brand new part for monitoring their objects under the individuals and pets part on the Location tab of the app.

Tiles which can be with a Life360 member of the family may even seem on the in-app map in actual time. If an merchandise is misplaced, customers can view as much as two days of location historical past free of charge. Subscription plan customers can entry longer durations of location historical past, with Gold and Platinum customers capable of see 30 days, whereas Silver members can entry the previous seven days. Silver members additionally now have entry to emergency dispatch companies by means of the Tile SOS button or the Life360 app. (This works with the 2024 Tile gadgets solely, nevertheless.)

As well as, Life360 customers will quickly have the ability to obtain automated push notifications when their objects hooked up to Tile gadgets are left behind. The corporate says to count on this performance to reach within the weeks forward.

Simply forward of this replace, Life360 redirected the Tile.com area to Life360.com.

The corporate hasn’t but given a sign if or when it plans to wind down the standalone Tile app, and it probably gained’t need to make that transfer till it’s capable of migrate customers over to its flagship product. However after Tile performance is absolutely replicated in Life360’s app, it could not make sense to proceed to run each functions. (Reached for remark, a spokesperson stated the Tile app shouldn’t be being retired “right now.”)

Life360 had said again in 2022 that it could combine Tile into its foremost app, noting on the time that if all its Life360 customers joined Tile, it could grow to be the most important discovering community. However that chance might have handed, given the delay in integrating the companies. Plus, rivals like Chipolo have since launched their own lost-item trackers that work instantly with each Apple and Google’s personal built-in discovering networks out of the field.

Life360 doesn’t share the variety of customers for its Tile app, however notes that its flagship product has 83.7 million world month-to-month energetic customers, 45.3 million of whom are primarily based within the U.S.