Pretty much what the title says is having a VPN even worth it when you need to have your location on to track devices and share your location with family. If I lose my phone and I have my VPN isn’t it useless bc I won’t be able to track my phone. Or if my family wants to know where I’m at doesn’t it defeat the purpose?
Using a VPN will not affect finding your phone if lost.
Anything that requires deep privacy needs to be done thru Tor. I use protonvpn for porn and trolling discord
Location will use GPS and your VPN will not affect that. Unrelated.
I use a vpn to bypass geolocation lock on mlb.tv
People have this preconceived notion that Vpns are meant to hide your location and make you anonymous. If this is what you think Vpns are then yes it is pointless in that regard. Vpns generally have nothing to do with preventing your phone or browser from handing over GPS data.
If anything it blocks a lot of ads
Tom Scott did a good video summarising what a VPN does, why it should be used and the common misconceptions.
I guess it might depend on the country you live in. As a russian, I can’t live without it as if it’s my heart support. As time goes by, I think its importance is increasing
having a vpn on will always protect your data and protect you
Thanks for all the replies ig I’m still figuring out how to use it 
Hi mate
for the live tracking it do not make any problem for example search how the weather on the internet and you can see it tell the weather of your country and your city.
using a VPN is always worth, but in some counties internet is a little expensive and using vpn double your usage of internet.
Can you tell me what are you looking for for example someone is looking for privacy or some one looking for security or you dont care about these at all?
sorry for bad english
Everything has a origin, people underestimate this simple fact.
Having a VPN doesn’t hide your location at all but for instance, Surfshark has an option for “location spoofing” if you want to use it.
Thing is, if your phone is being seen by cell towers, your location is known as far as I know.
If your ISP throttles as much as mine does, you’ll notice a night and day difference in overall internet speed.
Been with proton for seven years. Disappointing that the free vpn does not let you choose your proxy server location. It is set by availability and typically it is some location in the midwest. Not japan, europe or scandinavia.
Like other people have said life 360 works for me with the vpn (I assume other gps does as well) however something I didn’t know for months is that for some reason CarPlay doesn’t work with the vpn. Bluetooth on the other hand does so you can still connect to your car with the vpn
It also hides your browsing traffic from your ISP: https://protonvpn.com/blog/how-does-a-vpn-work