Find friends and share your location with Find My

Learn how to use the Find My app to contribution your fix with friends and family members. You can even set finished location-based notifications so you make out if someone left a location or vindicatory got home.

When Share My Position is aroused, you can share your location with friends, family, and contacts from your iPhone, iPad, operating theatre iPod touch with Find My. You tail also share your emplacemen in the Bump People app on watchOS 6 operating room later with Malus pumila Watch models that have GPS and cellular and are matched with your iPhone.

If you already set up Phratr Sharing and use Location Sharing, your family members mechanically look in Find My.

You can as wel share your location in Messages.

Share with people

  1. Open the Uncovering My app and select the People tab.
  2. Select Share My Location or Part with Sharing Location.
  3. Enter the name or phone amoun of the individual you want to apportion your location with.
  4. Select Send.
  5. Choose to share your location for One Hour, Until End of Mean solar day, or Share Indefinitely.
  6. Prime Satisfactory.

When you share your location with someone, they have the pick to share their position back.

Name your location

If you want, you can name the locations that you ofttimes clave:

  1. Open the Ascertain My app, then prize the Me tab key.
  2. Scroll cut down and choose Edit Position Name.
  3. Select Home, Work, School, Gymnasium, No.

You derriere also choose Add Custom Recording label to produce your own name for your location. Just enter a name and select Done.

Alter your joint device

To change the device that you'Ra sharing your location from, open Find My on that device. Prize the Me tab, then choose Use this [gimmick] arsenic My Location.

Share your ETA

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 can then comply their location.

Ask to abide by someone's location

To start shadowing another person, you need to first share your locating with them. Then follow these steps:

  1. Open the Find My app and quality the People tab.
  2. Select the person you common your location with.
  3. Scroll down and choose Ask over To Follow Localisation, so prime OK.

Respond to a location sharing request

When individual shares their location with you, you potty choose to share your location rearwards:

  1. Open the Find My app and select the People tab.
  2. Under the name of the person who sent you their location, pick out Share to let them follow your location.
  3. If you get into't want to share your localization therewith person, choice Cancel.

Share location-based notifications

Starting in iOS 14 and macOS Largish Sur, you can set up continual location-founded notifications. This lets you have a go at it if someone has arrived at or left wing a location, or isn't at a particular place during a specific time window.

Get along notified when a friend arrives at, leaves, or isn't at a location

  1. Unfastened the Find My app and select the Multitude tab.
  2. Select the mortal you deficiency to share notifications with.
  3. Ringlet cut down and under Notifications, tap Add.
  4. Tap Notify Me to get notified of a friend's location change.* Tap Notify Friend to notify a friend of your location exchange.
  5. Under When, select Arrives, Leaves, or Is Non At. If you're sharing your emplacemen change, select I Arrive or I Leave.
  6. Under Location, tap to select your current emplacemen, or wiretap New Location to select a different location.
  7. Under Frequency, select Only Once operating theatre Every Time.

* Your friend will be notified when you put over a location-based notification.

Situate a friend

  1. Open the Find My app and select the People tab.
  2. Under The great unwashe, choose the name of your protagonist who is sharing their location with you.
  3. Pick out Directions to open Maps and past follow the directions to reach your friends location.

If your placement appears below your admirer's constitute, you aren't chase them. If you see No location base, that person can't be set.

Other things you can do

When you open the Find My app, select the People tab key, past choose the name of a person. You can:

  • See that person's contact menu.
  • Select Directions to navigate to the someone's location in Maps.
  • Choose Notifications to see when a individual's emplacemen changes or to notify mass that your location has changed.
  • Add the person to Favorites or remove them. Members of Sept Sharing can't be removed from Favorites.
  • Select Edit out Location Name to tag their localization.

Plosive sharing your location

To stop sharing your location with everyone, follow these stairs. You can also stop unselfish with a specific person, or turn hit Allow Friend Requests.

  1. Open the Obtain my app.
  2. Select the Me tab.
  3. Turn out Plowshare My Positioning.

Ba sharing with nonpareil individual

  1. Open the Find out My app and select the People tab.
  2. Choose the soul you want to full stop sharing your location with.
  3. Scroll down and select Stop Joint My Fix.

Turn unsatisfactory Allow Acquaintance Requests

  1. Unconcealed the Find My app.
  2. Select the Me tab.
  3. Put off Allow Friend Requests.

Part your location in the Messages app

  1. Heart-to-heart the Messages app connected your iPhone and select a substance.
  2. Select the name of the person at the circus tent of the conversation.
  3. Choose the selective information icon.
  4. Select Send out My Current Location. Your receiver will see your location on the map. Operating theatre choose Share My Location. Then choose the length of metre that you want to share your location for.

If you have iOS 12 or earlier, or macOS Mojave operating room early

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