How To Share Your Location Through Family Sharing

Let us get straight in and show you how to share your location with others through Family Sharing.

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After this, the family member will get a notification that reads ‘John started sharing location with you. Do you want to share yours?‘ If they long-press on the notification, a popup with useful options comes up. They can choose to share the location with you as well, or tap Don’t Share. If they tap the notification, it opens in the Find My app with the same popup and options.

Once you share your location, the family member can see your device location in Find My app on their device running iOS 13 or later or Apple Watch with watchOS 6 or later. If they are using iOS 12 or any previous version up to iOS 8, they will have to use the Find My iOS app.

You can use the Find My app to share location for short durations. Our post on how to use the Find My app will tell you about this and more.

Apple clearly says that ‘by default, the device that you used to sign in to Family Sharing is the one that shares your location.’ In our example, the location is shared via the iPhone. But if desired, my iPad or my other iPhone (using the same Apple ID) can be used to share the location instead. Here’s how. Location sharing is helpful. When the family organizer enables location sharing in Family Sharing, his/her location is automatically shared with all family members. However, if you want privacy, Apple makes it effortless to disable location sharing with family members.

Note: If you turn off the toggle for Share My Location (shown above FAMILY in step 2), then it hides your location from all your family members as well as approved friends. Signing Off This is how you can enable and disable location sharing via Family Sharing. It is an incredible feature to know where the people who matter the most (and their expensive devices) are. You can also share your location via the Messages app with anyone over iMessage. For this, open a person’s conversation and tap the name or profile picture. Next, tap info and choose to Share My Current Location or Share My Location. Finally, I agree that iPhones and iPads are easy to carry and almost always with you. Thus it makes better sense to share your location using these. But that doesn’t mean that you can not share your location via your Mac. For this, open System Preferences and click on Family Sharing. Next, from the left sidebar, click on Location Sharing and enable or disable it for the desired members. Read next:

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