My mom tracks my phone using Find my iPhone. I need to go somewhere without them knowing. Is there any way to freeze or change my location?

I'm 19, have my own car, pay for my phone myself, and go to college 4 hours from home. I need to go home and back this weekend without my parents knowing because they are very critical and judgemental of me going home so often. I don't want to leave my phone at my college dorm because I may need it on my 8 hour drive, and I would rather not jailbreak my phone but am open to that if there's no other option.

When Android user sends text to a mixed group of iPhone and Android users?

A family member who is an Android user sent a text message to a large group of recipients, including me. The group has both Android users and iPhone users. I'm an iPhone user. Does this mean that I will receive everyone else s messages like an iMessage group, or will all messages go directly between the conversation starter and whoever is messaging him, without any of the other group members seeing what the other members said?

My phone is connected to the internet but doesn't show the Wi-Fi bar logo?

So I was in the middle of watching a video until my phone died. I charged it and waited for it to restart again. It did but didn't connect to the Wi-Fi after at least waiting 15 seconds for it to connect. I opened the settings app and checked if it was connected. It was connected with a check mark but there was no Wi-Fi bar logo. I was confused and tried watching some videos (which didn't work). Does anyone have a solution to this?

P.S, I have a iPhone 6s for anyone who is curious.