The Life360 Pet GPS Goes Quiet Inside Every Saved Place

Life360's help center calls it Power Saving Mode. In Standard Mode, whenever the Pet GPS is inside a Place, it drops live tracking and updates its location once every 24 hours, then reports as soon as it crosses the boundary. If a family member's phone is within Bluetooth range, the dog shows at that person's location.

The rule applies in every Place saved in your Circle, home and anywhere else. A dog that bolts toward a park or a relative's house you have saved as a Place goes back to daily check-ins once it is inside. In a Place, Ring and Light work only over Bluetooth, within 30 to 100 feet of a phone.

The escape alert is the Place's Leaves notification, which you switch on for the pet in each Place's settings. For a Pet GPS, a Place can be sized anywhere from 100 feet to 2 miles, and a larger Place means the dog is farther from home when that alert fires. Places also must not overlap, or the notifications become unreliable.

Beast Mode keeps the tracker online everywhere, Places included, but it is a beta open to a limited number of members and cuts the battery to four or five days. Switching modes needs a network connection, so flipping a lost dog's tracker to Beast Mode only takes effect when the tracker next connects.

Escaped Pet Mode starts from the pet's card in the app. It alerts everyone in your Circle and sets the tracker's LED blinking, so the dog is easier to spot at night. Outside Bluetooth range, anyone in the Circle can ring the tracker or turn on its light over cellular. A Stationary banner appears once the dog has stayed in one spot outside a Place for more than 15 minutes.

The Lost Pet Alert reaches nearby Life360 members through the Pet Finder Network, with the dog's photo and your phone number. You can send one every 72 hours, both sender and recipients must be 18 or older, and Life360 can decline an alert whose photo is blurry, dark or shows more than one animal. In the US, the same alert can be shared with Petco Love Lost, which matches photos across a network of more than 3,200 shelters and community members and receives your phone's or the tracker's exact location. Shelters in that network still scan for a microchip, which is the backup if the collar comes off.

Life360 rates the battery at up to 14 days in Standard Mode and four to five days in Beast Mode, according to its model table. Time spent outside Places, Escaped Pet Mode, the LED, weak signal and extreme temperatures all shorten it. A dog that rarely leaves a saved Place is the case the two-week figure describes, because the tracker spends those hours checking in once a day.

A low-battery notification comes first, much earlier in Beast Mode. When the battery is nearly flat, the tracker enters Reserve Mode: it talks only over Bluetooth and reports a location when it passes a phone in the Find with Life360 network, for up to six months. Real-time location ends at that point.

Charging takes up to two hours, and Life360 asks owners not to leave it on the cable longer because that wears the battery.

A paid Life360 membership is required for GPS tracking, and the device does nothing without one. Buying it gives new and free members a year of Silver, which then renews every year unless canceled. Existing paid members are not charged for a second membership. Silver covers up to two trackers, Gold five and Platinum ten. The Silver bundle arrived in August 2026, and before it the tracker needed Gold or Platinum.

The tracker and the membership offer are sold only in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Wi-Fi for a Place must be a password-protected 2.4 GHz network, and Life360 warns that dual-band mesh setups, which Starlink and HughesNet often default to, may not connect. There is no sleep or heart-rate monitoring, and activity is limited to the timeline, a weekly roundup and a Zoomies alert for dogs.