Meeting up with friends at a festival? Locate them with Find My
Whether you share your location permanently with family members so you all know where each other are, or temporarily with groups of friends with whom you’re on holiday or plan to meet at a festival, the Find My app is indispensable. By combining data from Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular networks and GPS, the app is able to identify the location of friends who have agreed to share it with you. The Find My app then displays that location on a map.
Rather cleverly, and with privacy in mind, devices that are sharing their location don’t continually report that location to Apple’s servers. Instead, they wait until a request is made from a device with which the device owner has agreed to share and then report the location. The device to which the request was made will then record that location and if another request is made from the same device within two hours, even if the device is off or out of range, will report the most recent location along with a time stamp.
HOW TO Use Find My
Launch Find My and then tap People. Tap the ‘+’ and choose Share My Location. Start typing the name of the person with whom you want to share it and tap their name when it appears. Tap Send. Choose an option from the menu.
Launch the Mac app and click the People tab at the top left of the window. Click Share My Location at the bottom. Start typing the name of the person you want to share with and click their name. Click Send and choose an option.
On iPhone or iPad, tap People, then tap the name of the person you want to stop sharing with. Choose Stop Sharing My Location. On Mac, clic
