Jiobit for Families 4+

The size of the device is perfect and the ability to add trusted places is nice, however from my experience there seems to be quite a bit of delay in alerting me when my child has left or arrived at a trusted place. Also, I have three other family members apart of my “care team”- the other day I had a bit of a panic moment while I was at work and my child was home with her mother and the other two family members apart of the care team. I get an alert that my child had left the safe place (home) and immediately checked the app. She was two blocks away before even alerting me 😳 and it didn’t say she was with anyone. I called one of the family members at home to ask where my daughter was... turns out she was on a walk with her mom. My wife had her phone, but the device isn’t pairing (via Bluetooth) to it when I’m not in range.

A few points of improvement- the ability to add “red zones” aka unsafe places. We have a wooded area behind our house that we would like to know immediately if our child ventures out there. Another is notifications via Alexa of arrival and departure from safe and unsafe areas. Lastly, the ability to refresh the location remotely on demand. Like if I’m at work to check in on my child’s location, “Updated 15+ minutes ago” doesn’t cut it.

My first charge lasted 12 hours. Now that I don’t use all of the features, it averages 2 to 3 days. If you want to live track, it depletes the battery in a matter of a few hours. Better find your dog quick! If it uses the cellular network, it kills the battery fast. Stay close and keep it on bluetooth and it helps. If you get on the map and make a bunch of safe places, the battery will last longer, but it won’t show you your pets exact location, only that he’s in a certain safe place. I wanted to know where my dog was on the farm, but the battery doesn’t last long enough for this. I had to make the entire farm a safe place to keep the battery up... The map doesn’t have satellite view, so if your out in the country the only reference points are roads. No houses, barns, tree lines, creeks, only roads. Also the map doesn’t show your location in reference to your dog so you have to make your best guess where you are on a standard view map. It gets 3 stars because it works good in town and if your pet is always near a care team member with Bluetooth. Not at all impressed with the 7-45 days claim.

Got this 18 months ago for my two dogs. I wanted to be able to know when they escaped the fence and exactly where they are It worked great until recently. Now it is constantly jumping on and off Wi-Fi so I’m get sometimes 10 notifications an hour telling me they’ve left and then they’ve returned. Can’t keep this up. Jiobit is now part of Tile so don’t know if that’s how it is but can say that I don’t have a way to get help from them. I’ve sent help inquiries with no response except to ask me to rate the requested help which I’ve responded asking for them to response.
I think I’m going to stop and start with AirTags until I do enough research on a similar system.