How To Find Out What Apps Your Friends Have

(Pocket-lint) - Apple'southward Find My app enables you to track your friends and family'southward location. The person you lot want to track has to take an iPhone too, and they take to accept your asking to share their location with you lot, merely once setup, y'all can track your family or friend's iPhone at whatsoever time.

The feature was originally chosen Observe My Friends, simply the Notice My Friends and Notice My iPhone apps were combined in 2019 with the launch of iOS 13 into what is at present called Find My.

Here is how to setup tracking for a friend or family unit's iPhone, as well as how to rails an iPhone once setup.

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How to share your iPhone location with a friend

It'southward piece of cake to showtime sharing your iPhone's location with a friend or family member, and you can select between sharing it for an hour, till the end of the day you set it up, or indefinitely.

Keep in heed that for the fourth dimension period you select, the friend will be able to meet exactly where y'all are unless yous turn your location off, or yous don't take cellular data.

To setup observe my friends and start sharing your location with a friend, follow the steps below:

Brand certain you both have an iPhone
Open the Find My app. It has a gray background with a large dark-green circumvolve and a pocket-sized blue dot within the light-green circle.
Tap on the People tab in the bottom left
Tap on the "+"
Then tap on Share My Location
Search for the contact you want to share your location with. Those with iPhones volition appear in blue. If the contact proper noun is grey, they exercise not have an iPhone and this feature won't work
Add any boosted contacts y'all want to share your location with
Once you take selected all the friends you lot want to share your location with, tap on 'Ship' in the summit correct
Select "Share for One Hr", "Share Until End of Day" or "Share Indefinitely"

The friends yous accept chosen to share your location with volition appear within the People tab of the Find My app. Under their proper name, it will say "Tin meet your location", unless you are sharing location with each other.

How to track a friend's iPhone

In order to track a friend'southward iPhone, they need to share their location with you lot as above. If they are also part of your Family Sharing grouping - which you tin read more about in our split feature - and they are sharing location with yous, you will be able to see all their Apple devices associated with their Apple tree ID in the Devices tab of the Find My app.

Your friend can follow the steps in the department above to start sharing their location with you, which will then enable you to track their iPhone and see where they are. Alternatively, you lot tin can offset sharing your location with them as above, and then tap on their proper name in the People tab and whorl downwards to "Inquire to Follow Location".

They volition get a notification of your request, which they will then need to accept earlier you can track their iPhone.

One time your request has been accustomed and location is being shared, you can see a friend's location in the People tab of the Find My app. Under their name, information technology will tell you lot the town and state where they are, likewise as the distance from you. If you lot tap on their name, you'll encounter a map giving yous a more precise location, every bit well every bit the option to get directions to their location.

You lot tin can also see a friend'southward location you share with through Messages. Open up Messages > Open the chat of the person you want to see the location of > Tap on their proper noun at the height of the chat. Their location will appear inside the map.

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Using notifications on Find My

It's possible to set up notifications within the Find My app on iPhone. You can setup your iPhone to automatically notify your friend when you leave or get home for example, or you can setup a notification for yourself for when a friend leaves work or abode, or even something more specific like passes a certain place on a walk.

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To prepare notifications, follow the steps below:

Open up the Find My app
Tap on the People tab in the bottom left
Tap on the friend you lot want to set upwards a notification for or virtually
Swipe up on the information card to see all the options below the map
Tap on 'Add' nether Notifications
Tap on 'Notify Me' or 'Notify [contact]

If you select 'Notify Me', you can cull between '[contact] Arrives', '[contact] Leaves' or [contact] Is Non At', followed past your contact's current location, your location or a 'New Location' and the frequency y'all want the notifications, which is either 'Merely In one case' or 'Every Time'.

Choosing '[contact] Is Non At' changes the options slightly. The location options are the same, but you tin then select a time frame and the days you lot want to be notified. For example, you could setup a notification to alarm you every time a friend is not at work during the week.

If yous select 'Notify [contact]', y'all tin can then choose between 'I Make it' and 'I Exit', followed past your electric current location, their current location or 'New Location', and the frequency yous want the notications to be sent, which again is a choice of 'Only One time' or 'Every Time'.

One time you have selected your choices, you'll need to tap on 'Add together' in the height correct corner. When you lot are setting up a notification for yourself, the contact you are choosing to be notified about will become an alert to tell them you have prepare upwards a notification.

Another tips and tricks...

There are a couple of other tips and tricks inside the Find My app worth mentioning to help you lot become the most out of it.

Stop sharing your location

Yous can stop sharing your location at any point by turning the location toggle off in the Find My app within the Me tab. When off, none of your friends that you are sharing your location with will exist able to see where y'all are.

It will simply say 'No Location Found' under your name in their People tab. When you toggle it dorsum on, your location will reappear.

Stop sharing your location with a friend

You lot can terminate sharing your location with a specific friend permanantly if you change your listen. You volition disappear from their list in People in the Observe My app and y'all'll have to follow the steps at the beginning of this feature to start sharing location again.

Open the Notice My app > Tap on the People tab > Tap on the person y'all want to stop sharing your location with > Swipe up on the information card at the bottom of the screen > Tap on 'Terminate Sharing My Location' > Confirm 'Stop Sharing Location'.

Turn off friend requests

If yous don't want to recieve requests from friends to follow your location, you can turn them off.

Open the Find My app > Tap on the Me tab > Swipe up on the information card at the bottom of the screen > Toggle off the 'Allow Friend Requests' under Notifications.

Add a contact to your favourites

You can add together sure friends as favourites within the Find My app. If you add a friend or contact as a favourite, they will appear at the top if your list in the People tab of the Find My app, allowing you to encounter their location quickly, especially if you are sharing your location with mutiple friends.

Open the Find My app > Tap on their proper name in the People tab > Swipe upwardly on the information carte du jour at the bottom of the screen > Tap 'Add together [contact] to Favourites'.

Edit a location proper name for a contact

Rather than have the town and country announced equally the location under a contact'southward proper name in the Find My app, you can edit a location name so it says 'Home' or 'Piece of work', for example.

Open the Discover My app > Tap on the People tab > Tap on the person you want to edit the location for > Swipe up on the information card at the bottom of the screen > Tap on Edit Location Name > Select from Dwelling house, Work, Schoolhouse, Gym, None, or Create Custom Label.

Edit a location proper noun for yourself

You can edit a location name for yourself besides as your contacts, so your contacts volition run into 'Home' rather than the town and country.

Open the Notice My app > Tap on the 'Me' tab > Swipe up on the information card > Tap on 'Edit Location Name'.

Remove a friend

If y'all no longer want to run into a friend's location, you can remove them from your list.

Open the Find My app > Tap on the People tab > Tap on the person y'all want to remove from your list > Swipe up on the data card at the bottom of the screen > Tap on 'Remove [contact].

Writing by Britta O'Boyle.