<i>Does it not show you the potential error?</i><p>I often use Find My Friends to keep track of the kids. I presume its location methodology is similar to Find My iPhone. Here&#x27;s how it behaves:<p>About 10% of the time, it doesn&#x27;t show a current location at all for the kid. It does remember the previous one, so it will show a location and say something like &quot;46 minutes ago&quot;.<p>When it does display a location, about 60% of the time it&#x27;s a single spot.<p>The remaining 30% of the time it is a spot enclosed by a tinted circle. That circle can be a few hundred feet in diameter, or it can be more than 5 miles in diameter. This is the potential error. However, I&#x27;d bet that 95% of the people looking at it don&#x27;t understand the concept of &quot;potential error&quot;. So to them, the enclosing circle doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>Edit: forgot to add, about 2% of the time it will show an &quot;exact&quot; location, what I called a &quot;spot&quot;, no &quot;potential error&quot; circle. Then a minute later it will show a different exact location a few miles away. Then a minute later yet a third exact location another mile or two away. So in other words, about 2% of the time it is really confused (the kid is stationary the whole time).