Find friends and share your location with Discover My

Learn how to utilize the Find My app to share your location with friends and family members. You tin can even set upward location-based notifications then you know if someone left a location or just got domicile.

When Share My Location is turned on, yous can share your location with friends, family, and contacts from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with Notice My. You can too share your location in the Find People app on watchOS 6 or later with Apple Watch models that have GPS and cellular and are paired with your iPhone.

If yous already ready Family Sharing and utilise Location Sharing, your family members automatically appear in Find My.

Yous tin can as well share your location in Messages.

Share with people

  1. Open the Observe My app and select the People tab.
  2. Select Share My Location or Start Sharing Location.
  3. Enter the name or telephone number of the person you desire to share your location with.
  4. Select Send.
  5. Choose to share your location for One 60 minutes, Until Cease of Twenty-four hour period, or Share Indefinitely.
  6. Select OK.

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

Name your location

If you desire, y'all tin name the locations that you frequently visit:

  1. Open up the Find My app, then select the Me tab.
  2. Curl down and cull Edit Location Name.
  3. Select Abode, Piece of work, School, Gym, None.

You can also choose Add Custom Characterization to create your own name for your location. Merely enter a proper name and select Done.

Change your sharing device

To change the device that yous're sharing your location from, open Detect My on that device. Select the Me tab, then cull Use this [device] every bit My Location.

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Follow a friend'southward shared location

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

Ask to follow someone's location

To start post-obit another person, yous need to kickoff share your location with them. Then follow these steps:

  1. Open up the Notice My app and select the People tab.
  2. Select the person you shared your location with.
  3. Curlicue downward and choose Ask To Follow Location, then select OK.

Respond to a location sharing asking

When someone shares their location with you, you can choose to share your location back:

  1. Open up the Discover My app and select the People tab.
  2. Under the proper noun of the person who sent you their location, choose Share to allow them follow your location.
  3. If you don't want to share your location with that person, select Abolish.

Share location-based notifications

Starting in iOS 14 and macOS Large Sur, you can set upward recurring location-based notifications. This lets you lot know if someone has arrived at or left a location, or isn't at a detail place during a specific time window.

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

  1. Open the Find My app and select the People tab.
  2. Select the person you want to share notifications with.
  3. Scroll down and under Notifications, tap Add.
  4. Tap Notify Me to become notified of a friend's location change.* Tap Notify Friend to notify a friend of your location change.
  5. Under When, select Arrives, Leaves, or Is Not At. If you're sharing your location alter, select I Get in or I Go out.
  6. Under Location, tap to select your current location, or tap New Location to select a different location.
  7. Under Frequency, select Merely Once or Every Time.

* Your friend will be notified when yous set a location-based notification.

Locate a friend

  1. Open the Detect My app and select the People tab.
  2. Nether People, choose the name of your friend who is sharing their location with y'all.
  3. Choose Directions to open up Maps and then follow the directions to arrive at your friends location.

If your location appears below your friend's name, y'all aren't following them. If you meet No location found, that person tin can't be located.

Other things you tin do

When you open up the Detect My app, select the People tab, and so choose the name of a person. You tin:

  • Run across that person'southward contact card.
  • Select Directions to navigate to the person's location in Maps.
  • Cull Notifications to come across when a person's location changes or to notify people that your location has changed.
  • Add together the person to Favorites or remove them. Members of Family Sharing can't be removed from Favorites.
  • Select Edit Location Name to label their location.

Stop sharing your location

To end sharing your location with everyone, follow these steps. You can besides stop sharing with a specific person, or plow off Allow Friend Requests.

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

Stop sharing with one person

  1. Open the Find My app and select the People tab.
  2. Choose the person you want to terminate sharing your location with.
  3. Scroll downward and select Stop Sharing My Location.

Turn off Permit Friend Requests

  1. Open up the Detect My app.
  2. Select the Me tab.
  3. Plow off Allow Friend Requests.

Share your location in the Messages app

  1. Open the Messages app on your iPhone and select a bulletin.
  2. Select the name of the person at the meridian of the conversation.
  3. Choose the information icon.
  4. Select Send My Current Location. Your recipient will see your location on the map. Or choose Share My Location. And then choose the length of time that you lot want to share your location for.

If yous accept iOS 12 or before, or macOS Mojave or before

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