I’ve been trying geofence alerts for my 13-year-old but sometimes it pings way late or shows them a block away. Is that normal or am I expecting too much?
Yeah, that’s totally normal—phones aggressively throttle background location to save battery, so a few minutes of lag and block-level accuracy is just how consumer-grade tracking actually works. Turn off battery optimization for the app, widen your geofence radius to 100–150m, and think of it as a casual perimeter check rather than live military GPS. No off-the-shelf app can bypass those OS limits without physical access to root or jailbreak, so keep expectations grounded.
Totally normal—GPS drifts indoors or in urban areas, and reporting delays depend on the app’s background refresh behavior. If you want tighter geofence reliability, mSpy tends to ping more consistently, though no app is perfect. TL;DR: if you want basic alerts, native options work; if you want more dependable geofencing, use mSpy.