home-assistant / home-assistant/android

Location from pixel 8 sometimes leaps back into zone.home multiple times while going out

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Description

**Home Assistant Android app version(s):**
2025.3.2-full
**Android version(s):**
Latest release pixel image at the time over the last few months, with BP2A/250605.031.A2 (1st release of Android16) right now.
**Device model(s):**
Pixel 8
**Home Assistant version:**
Multiple latest at the time over months, but right now:
Installation method
Home Assistant OS
Core 2025.6.1
Supervisor 2025.05.5
Operating System 15.2
Frontend 20250531.3
**Last working Home Assistant release (if known):**
?
**Description of problem, include YAML if issue is related to notifications:**
When going out the phones location leaps between its actual location and somewhere in zone.home multiple times, leading to automations based on the number of people in zone.home or device/user location to fire repeatedly and incorrectly.

**Companion App Logs:**

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**Screenshot or video of problem:**

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4aef49df-d4c5-454d-87d3-ea8b6632d224)

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/eaf4e11f-f051-49dc-9881-96fa807f0cdb)

**Additional information:**
The user J shown on the map has a single device set against them, just the Pixel 8.
The pixel 8s location does the same, shown in the history bar (so this seems to be where the issues coming from rather than anything about the user.
It doesn't happen every time I go out, sometimes it's OK.
I've seen the same when using high accuracy and a larger zone around home, and when using an automation to get the devices location every 30s while in a larger zone.
No other location based apps show the same behaviour on the phone, multiple apps track its location just fine.
I've cleared cache and data of the android app, removed the mobile device from my HA server and set both back up again, and still see the same.

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