life360 demanding google play services

my family uses life360. i was hoping microg would allow me to use it, but no luck. it tells me i cannot use life360 without google play services. i've fiddled around with microg and unifiednlp but it's still not working. must i absolutely have to install gapps?

The report names no file, test, or entry point and does not define a change to make. Start by clarifying whether the Life360 requirement can be reproduced with UnifiedNlp and the reported microG configuration; done would be a documented compatibility finding or a narrowly scoped fix.

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