Presence Sensor Questions w/ST app, experts weigh in?

Just closing the app doesn’t shut it down altogether. It will continue to run in the background on some phones. Even if it’s been removed in the background, the next time you open the mobile app it will update your location.

If you remove the mobile app from the phone all together, smartthings won’t have anyway to update the phone’s location.

So there’s a very big difference.

There are alternate ways of providing presence if you don’t want to use the SmartThings mobile app. As you mentioned, life 360 is very popular and has an official integration.

You could also use IFTTT presence or even Wi-Fi detection. See:

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