The location options are the same, but you can then select a time frame and the days you want to be notified. If you select 'Notify Me', you can choose between ' Arrives', ' Leaves' or Is Not At', followed by your contact's current location, your location or a 'New Location' and the frequency you want the notifications, which is either 'Only Once' or 'Every Time'.Ĭhoosing ' Is Not At' changes the options slightly.

Select 'Share for One Hour', 'Share Until End of Day' or 'Share Indefinitely'.

Once you have selected all the friends you want to share your location with, tap on 'Send' in the top right.

Add any additional contacts you want to share your location with.

If the contact name is grey, they do not have an iPhone and this feature won't work

Search for the contact you want to share your location with.

Tap on the People tab in the bottom left.

It has a grey background with a large green circle and a small blue dot within the green circle. To setup find my friends and start sharing your location with a friend, follow the steps below: Keep in mind that for the time period you select, the friend will be able to see exactly where you are unless you turn your location off, or you don't have cellular data. It's easy to start 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.

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