{"id":27888,"date":"2018-06-07T14:34:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/?p=27888"},"modified":"2018-06-07T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:34:14","slug":"all-about-find-my-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/all-about-find-my-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"All about Find My Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

As iPhones have become ever more prevalent, one of Apple\u2019s bundled apps\u2014Find My Friends\u2014has become significantly more useful. Although there are legitimate concerns about sharing your location willy-nilly, Find My Friends gives everyone full control over what they share, making it truly helpful for families and close friends. So if you\u2019ve ever thought it would be useful to know when your child left their soccer game or wanted them to receive an automatic alert when you leave to pick them up, Find My Friends is the app for you. It\u2019s also great for keeping track of aging parents or for housemates looking out for one another.<\/p>\n

Add and Remove Friends
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Although you can add friends in the Find My Friends app by tapping Add and selecting their contact card, it\u2019s easier to work from Messages, assuming you want to share your location with someone with whom you regularly text anyway. In their conversation, tap the i button, tap Share My Location, and in the popover that appears, tap Share Indefinitely. (Share for One Hour and Share Until End of Day are useful for temporarily sharing your location while traveling, say, to visit colleagues with whom permanent sharing would be inappropriate.)<\/p>\n

However you initiate the sharing, the other person receives a notification and can accept and choose to share their location as well. (If they don\u2019t do so right away, you can tap their name in your Find My Friends list and tap Ask to Follow.) That said, unidirectional sharing is all right, though in families and particularly for children, bidirectional sharing can be more helpful.<\/p>\n

Should you ever wish to stop sharing your location with someone, you can either swipe left on their entry in Find My Friends and tap the red Trash button, or go into their conversation details in Messages and tap Stop Sharing My Location.<\/p>\n

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Once you have someone in the Find My Friends app, you\u2019ll see their entry in the list and their location on the map. That may be all you need if, for example, your goal is to see where your spouse is on their bike ride so you can figure out when to start dinner. A tip: for a quick location check, ask Siri something like, \u201cWhere is my wife?\u201d<\/p>\n

But Find My Friends has other features that make it even more useful. To access these features, tap a friend in the list or on the map to focus on them.<\/p>\n

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