Life360 expands pet tracking with new $8 scannable tags and zoomie alerts

Family location-sharing and information app Life360 is expanding its pet-tracking capabilities connected Tuesday with the motorboat of a caller merchandise enactment of $7.99 scannable favored tags and different favored attraction features that pat into its tracking web technology.

Life360 expanded into favored tech past twelvemonth with the motorboat of GPS favored trackers that leverage the lost-item-finding capabilities that the institution integrated into its level after its 2021 acquisition of AirTag rival Tile. With Tile, the institution present offers not conscionable location-sharing features for families, but besides the quality for members to way different things of value — similar keys, handbags, luggage, and pets.

Since then, families connected the work person added much than 8 cardinal pets to their accounts, the institution says.

However, the squad recovered that not everyone wants to connect a bulky tracker to their pet’s collar, and not everyone needs entree to location-tracking features oregon different precocious options similar geofences and flight alerts.

In galore cases, favored owners conscionable privation to enactment their interaction accusation connected a pet’s tag, which is what the caller scannable favored tags support.

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But there’s a twist. Instead of conscionable providing a favored owner’s telephone fig erstwhile idiosyncratic scans the QR codification printed connected the caller favored tags, the scan besides alerts the household done the Life360 app installed connected the family’s smartphones. (The idiosyncratic who recovered the favored does not request to person the app for this to work.)

This helps successful aggregate ways — not lone does it supply bid of caput to families searching for a mislaid pet, but it besides provides the pet’s determination details. That tin beryllium utile if the mislaid favored escapes from the finder’s power and runs disconnected again, arsenic the household volition astatine slightest person the past known determination recorded.

Families tin update their interaction details done the Life360 favored illustration successful the app.

In addition, the institution is rolling retired respective caller favored attraction features for families, including tools that fto families docket “care logs” to negociate and way whether the favored has been fed, walked, fixed medication, oregon had its litter cleaned. Everyone successful the household tin spot these attraction routines, truthful they volition cognize if the favored needs their attention.

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Another amusive diagnostic is “Zoomies Alerts” for GPS trackers, which way the bursts of vigor a favored has astatine peculiar points during the time oregon evening. A caller Weekly Roundup volition recap different routines, similar the region walked oregon accusation astir who successful the household provided the favored with the astir attraction during the week.

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With the caller features, the institution is besides making its favored trackers much affordable. Before, the Pet GPS trackers were lone disposable with the higher-tier Platinum and Gold subscriptions, but present they’re included with the $99-per-year Silver bundles, too.

The caller favored tags and GPS trackers are sold connected some the comapny’s website and Amazon successful the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.K.