Inaccurate location notifications, overpriced premium features – Life360: Find Friends & Family Review

UPDATE ON 11/30/17: developer’s response gives me directions on how to adjust the radius. I already knew how to do this. The issue is that even when I adjust the radius to the smallest the app allows, it is still cumbersomely large. ORIGINAL REVIEW: First of all, location arrival notifications in this app are very inaccurate. We have several locations set up such as kids’ friends’ houses, malls, etc. The app will falsely report my wife arriving at various places on her way to work even though her path does not even come close to intersecting with the circular area of the locations. It appears that location notifications are triggered by approaching within a football field of a defined location area. I’d like to be able to define a location radius the size of a single house, but instead the app forces each location to be no smaller than literally 10 houses (and this is in an area where houses are built far apart from each other – in other areas the required radius would be a whole block). I would hope that with such a cumbersomely large radius requirement for locations, false positive arrival notifications wouldn’t exist. This app gives you both. I also think the premium features are hugely overpriced: $10/year would be reasonable for an app like this (after the 2 undesired behaviors above are fixed), but the premium app costs many times this amount. All we want to do is be able to have our family (“circle”) use the app and have many locations defined. Not interested in anything else. Neither of these functions actually deprives Life360 of any resources other than negligible bytes and bandwidth of automated data syncing. And don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind paying for premium features, even when we’re just talking about bits and bytes of automated data, but when that comes at such a hefty price, it really rubs me the wrong way. This app makes me remember the days when cell phone companies charged 10 cents to send a text message. Just because people were willing to pay for their texting like that doesn’t justify the pricing.
Review by OstinatoFreak on Life360: Find Friends & Family.