Accurate Methods to Capture Last Seen Time in Mobile Apps

·May 13, 2025 01:21 PM·

Hello All , Hope you are fine , I am searching for the most accurate way to know the last seen time of users on my mobile app , I searched the docs but it seems that relying on $last_seen property is not the accurate way , I am looking for how to capture the time stamp of End Session Event , appreciate your help if you advise any other accurate method you used

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Thena
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Hi Ahmed! Julianne from Mixpanel Support here. Diving right in, the $last_seen user property corresponds to the last time the profile was updated. This may not correspond to the last time a user tracked an event. I'd recommend creating a unique user's Insight report looking 'All Events' broken down by 'Time'. From there, you can specify the report to use the 'Last Segment' instead of counting every segment. For visualizations without a time component (ie, a bar chart), only the user's last event will be counted. I've generated an example of this here in our B2B/SaaS demo dataset: https://mixpanel.com/s/UL6ej. In this report, users are counted on the day of their last event. Would that work for your use case?
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Thena
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Hi Ahmed! Julianne from Mixpanel Support here. Diving right in, the $last_seen user property corresponds to the last time the profile was updated. This may not correspond to the last time a user tracked an event. I'd recommend creating a unique user's Insight report looking 'All Events' broken down by 'Time'. From there, you can specify the report to use the 'Last Segment' instead of counting every segment. For visualizations without a time component (ie, a bar chart), only the user's last event will be counted. I've generated an example of this here in our B2B/SaaS demo dataset: https://mixpanel.com/s/UL6ej. In this report, users are counted on the day of their last event. Would that work for your use case?
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