Family Sharing

Last Update:Mar 28 2025 8:45pm • Est. Read Time:Est. Read Time: 2 MIN

Invite family and friends to the WHISTLE™ app

We want to make sure everyone responsible for keeping your pet happy and safe can do so with WHISTLE™. By joining your pet's Family on the Whistle app, caretakers enjoy the same experience of managing your pet's location and activity through the app.

There is no additional cost to adding family members to your pet's family.


What can members of your pet's Family do?

Family members can use the app as you do— some of the actions they can take include:

  • Tracking your pet 
  • Receiving tracking notifications
  • Adding a Safe Place (Note: users in your pet's Family cannot delete each others Safe Places) 
  • Customizing notification settings for themselves
  • Editing your pet’s profile
  • Editing your pet’s activity goal

To add Family:

In iOS
In Android
1. In the bottom menu, tap the Pet icon

1. In the bottom menu, tap the Profile icon
2. In the Pet screen, go to the top right corner and tap the gear icon to open Settings




2. Scroll down to Family and tap Manage family members
3. Under your pet's family, tap Manage Family 
Then tap Add Human

3. Tap the Add Family Member button 




At this step in both iOS and Android:

A texting window will open. Choose a contact from your phone.

Send the text message 

 

You’ll be notified once your contact accepts the invitation and will see them in your pet’s profile. 

To accept your invitation, they must create their own Whistle account, or log into their Whistle account if they are already a user (see steps for accepting an invitation below).


Accepting an invitation

Click on the invitation link you received from your phone


If you don’t have the app, you’ll be directed to download it from the App Store or the Play Store

The app will open on the invitation screen. Tap Create Account if you’re new to Whistle, or Log In to finish accepting your invitation. 


Not seeing the invitation screen? If the app opens but you do not see the invitation screen, please go back to your message app and click on the invitation link again. Please do not force quit the app.

Removing Family members:

In iOS
1. In the bottom menu, tap the Pet icon 
2. In the pet screen, go to the top right corner and tap the gear icon to open Settings
3. Go to Manage Family 
4. Tap Remove next to the family member's name


In Android
1. In the bottom menu, tap the Profile icon

2. Scroll down to Family and tap Manage family members
3. Tap the X next to the name of the family member you'd like to remove