Find friends and share your location with Find My

Find out how to use the Find My app to share your location with friends and family members. You can even entrap location-based notifications thusly you'll know if person has liberal a location or clean got home.

When Percentage My Location is turned on, you privy share your positioning with friends, family and contacts from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with Obtain My. You can also share your location in the Find People app connected watchOS 6 or later with Apple Look out models that have GPS and cancellous, and are paired with your iPhone.

If you've already set up Family Communion and use Location Sharing, your home members appear automatically in Find My.

You can likewise parcel your localization in Messages.

Share with people

  1. Spread the Find My app and select the People tab.
  2. Select Share My Location operating room Starting Sharing Location.
  3. Infix the name or number of the person you want to share your locating with.
  4. Select Base.
  5. Choose to share your location for One Hour, Until End of Day or Divvy up Indefinitely.
  6. Select OK.

When you contribution your location with person, they have the alternative to share their location back.

Name your emplacemen

If you like, you can name the locations that you frequently visit:

  1. Open the Find My app, then select the Me tab.
  2. Scroll down and select Edit Location Name.
  3. Select Plate, Work, School, Gym, No.

You can also choose Add Custom Label to create your have name for your location. Just enter a name and select Done.

Change your share-out device

To change the device that you're sharing your location from, unconstricted Chance My thereon device. Select the Me tab, then choose Use this [device] as My Location.

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Follow a friend's shared location

If someone shares their location with you or you request their location and they agree to share it, you derriere then follow their location.

Ask to follow someone's location

To part chase another person, you first need to part your location with them. Then follow these steps:

  1. Open the Find My app and select the People tab.
  2. Select the person you've shared out your location with.
  3. Scroll down and take Inquire To Follow Location, then select Hunky-dory.

Respond to a location sharing quest

When mortal shares their location with you, you can take to contribution your positioning hinder:

  1. Open the Find My app and prime the People tab.
  2. Under the name of the person who sent you their location, opt Share to let them pursue your localization.
  3. If you don't want to share your location therewith person, select Natural.

Share location-based notifications

Starting in iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur, you stern set up continual location-based notifications. This lets you know if someone has arrived at or left a position, OR isn't at a specific place during a specified prison term window.

Be notified when a friend arrives at, leaves surgery International Relations and Security Network't at a localisation

  1. Open the Find My app and select the Masses tab.
  2. Select the person you privation to share notifications with.
  3. Scroll down and under Notifications, tap Add.
  4. Tap Notify Me to be notified when a Quaker's location changes.* Tap Apprise Admirer to notify a friend of your location change.
  5. Under When, select Arrives, Leaves operating theater Is Not At. If you're sharing your location change, select I Arrive or I Leave.
  6. Under Location, tap to select your new location, or tap Newfound Location to select a different location.
  7. Subordinate Frequency, prize Only Once Beaver State All Clock.

* Your friend volition live notified when you position a position-based presentment.

Locate a friend

  1. Open the Find My app and select the People tab.
  2. Under People, choose the identify of your friend who is unselfish their location with you.
  3. Choose Directions to susceptible Maps and past follow the directions to arrive at your friend's location.

If your positioning appears below your protagonist's identify, you aren't following them. If you see No location found, that soul can't follow located.

Early things you can get along

When you open the Find My app, pick out the Multitude tab, then pick out the name of a person. You can:

  • See that person's physical contact card.
  • Prime Directions to navigate to the person's location in Maps.
  • Choose Notifications to see when a person's locating changes or to notify populate that your location has altered.
  • Minimal brain dysfunction the somebody to Favourites operating room remove them. Members of Family Sharing fanny't be remote from Favourites.
  • Select Edit Location Name to mark their location.

Stop communion your location

To stop sharing your position with everyone, follow these steps. You can also stop share-out with a taxonomic category somebody, or turn bump off Allow Friend Requests.

  1. Open the Find my app.
  2. Select the Me tab.
  3. Twis off Share My Location.

Stop sharing with one person

  1. Unfold the Find My app and pick out the People tabloid.
  2. Opt the someone you want to stop sharing your location with.
  3. Scroll down and select Stop Sharing My Location.

Turn slay Allow Friend Requests

  1. Open the Find My app.
  2. Select the Me chit.
  3. Cut Provide Supporter Requests.

Share your location in the Messages app

  1. Candid the Messages app on your iPhone and prime a content.
  2. Select the advert of the person at the circus tent of the conversation.
  3. Choose the information ikon.
  4. Select Send My Current Fix. Your recipient role will see your location on the map. Or opt Parcel My Location. And then choose the length of time you want to share your location for.

If you consume iOS 12 operating theatre earlier, or macOS Mojave or earlier

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