Apparatus and methods are provided for UE-assisted tethering report. In one novel aspect, UE-assisted tethering report is generated with UE-assisted procedure based on latency measurement configuration. In one embodiment, the UE-assisted tethering report includes one or more elements comprising one bit to inform the activation of tethering mode, latency of packet transmission, and other side-information related to tethering path. In one embodiment, the UE-assisted procedure is inserting a measurement timestamp or recording timing of a predefined transport block (TB) of the packet. In another novel aspect, the UE performs a jitter measurement for an extended reality (XR) traffic, sends a UE-assisted information report for an end-to-end path of the XR traffic based on the jitter measurements, wherein the UE-assisted information includes one or more elements comprising jitter information and burst arrival time.