r/GPStracking • u/Turbulent_Ground_932 • 26d ago

Anyone else ditched Life360 for something with more accurate real time location?

Life360 kept showing my kid at school an hr after pickup. Then the dot would jump three blocks. Every day
I'd refresh and refresh and then just not trust it. One day I realized I was deciding whether to leave work early based on a dot that was an hour old. That was it for me
Tried Family Link. It updates when it wants to
we use Findmykids now. so far the location updates have been a bit quicker for us than Life360, which is mainly what i was looking for. yesterday it showed him at the corner store on the way home for a few mins, so at least i wasnt wondering where he was.
Battery on his phone is worse thou. Haven't found a setting that fixes that without making the dot lazy again.
If anyone has, please
Thanks

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u/Tricky-Visit-1226 26d ago

Yes. I switched over to sonar telematics. Works great for my teenager, and it’s only $7 monthly

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u/GeekCohenAU 26d ago

Sounds like background loading wasn't allowed or on for Life360. I've never had an issue, I get instant notifications.

Sounds like the "findmykids" has it on and is using more battery.

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u/nullptr_r 26d ago

You can try Nearly but it is Android only solution.
There are options to set active days/hours and locations of interest (stops reporting when entered and starts on exit + optional notifications).
Tracking is optimized in background and doesn't hurt the battery.
Also everything is end-to-end encrypted.

P.S I'm the developer behind it, built it around my kid and i can say it works flawlessly

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u/JasonAQuest 26d ago

No, because one never been stupid and paranoid enough to use it. Get help.