Find My and location sharing

When you share your location with other people through Find My, they can view it in the apps listed in the table below.

If you and the person you share your location with both have an iPhone with iOS 15 or later, you also share your Live Location in all the apps listed below. If you’re on the move, they can get a sense of the direction you’re travelling in and your speed.

App	Description
Find My	In the Find My app, others can go to the People tab and tap your name to see your location.
Find My	If you and another person both share your location with each other, both have an iPhone 15 or later and are near each other, you can use Precision Finding to find each other’s exact location. When you’re located near this person, Precision Finding helps them find you until they’re within a few feet of your location. If someone’s trying to find you with Precision Finding, you receive a notification that they’re trying to locate you. To learn more, see Use Precision Finding on iPhone 15 to meet up with a friend in the iPhone User Guide.
Find My	If you set up Family Sharing and use Location Sharing, your family members automatically appear in the People tab, but location sharing doesn’t start until you share your location with each other. See Manage Family Sharing settings.
Messages	In Messages, when others you’ve shared your location with tap your contact icon, they are taken to a Details view that shows your current location shared through Find My.
Messages	In Messages in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 or later, others you’ve shared your location with can also see your approximate location at the top of the Messages thread.
Maps	In Maps, when others you’ve shared your location with search for your name, they see your current location being shared through Find My on their map.

You can use the Find My app to notify a friend when your location changes. People you share location with can also set up notifications to see when your location changes.

You can turn off any location change notification about you. This includes notifications you set and notifications your friends create.

1. To see all notifications about you, do one of the following:

   • On your iPhone or iPad: Open the Find My app , then tap Me.

   • On your Mac: Open the Find My app , click Me, then click .

2. Look for a Notifications About You section.

   • If you do see the Notifications About You section, select a name to see more details.

   • If you can’t see the Notifications About You section, your friends aren’t notified when your location changes.

3. If you see a notification you want to delete, select a name, then select a notification.

4. Delete the notification, then confirm that you want to delete it.

When you stop sharing through any of the methods listed below, your location will disappear from the other person’s Find My, Maps, Contacts and Messages apps.

IMPORTANT: When you stop sharing your location, the people you previously shared with may notice that you’ve stopped. On older operating systems, they may receive a notification in Messages that you stopped sharing.

1. Open the Find My app .

2. Do one of the following:

   • To stop sharing with one person: Select the People tab, find the person you want to stop sharing with and tap their name, then scroll down and tap Stop Sharing My Location.

   • To stop sharing with everyone: Select the Me tab, then turn off Share My Location.

   Note: If the Find My app has been deleted from your device, you can turn off Location Services (go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services) to help ensure that your location isn’t being shared. Then download the Find My app from the App Store again.

When you stop sharing through any of the methods listed below, your location disappears from the other person’s Messages app on their devices.

1. Open the Messages app .

2. Do one of the following:

   • To stop sharing messages in a conversation: Choose the conversation with the person you want to stop sharing with, tap the person’s name at the top of the conversation, then tap Stop Sharing.

   • To stop sharing by deleting the conversation: In the Messages conversation list, swipe left on the conversation, tap , then tap Yes to confirm you want to stop sharing your location with the participants in this conversation.

When you stop sharing through either of the methods listed below, your location disappears from the other person’s Contacts apps on their devices.

1. Open the Contacts app .

2. Tap the person’s name.

3. Tap Stop Sharing My Location.

Find My iPhone (in Settings > Find My) helps you find your phone if it is lost or stolen.

When Find My iPhone is turned on, your device may be found through the Find My network for up to 24 hours after it has been turned off or disconnected from the internet. The location of your device is visible through Find My in the Devices tab on your other devices, and to anyone in Family Sharing you share your location with.

If you need to get to a safe location and you want to turn off your device, but you’re concerned that someone else may use this feature to find your location, you can temporarily turn off the Find My Network when you turn off the device by tapping iPhone Findable After Power Off (under Slide to Power Off) and following the onscreen instructions. Use the task below if you want to disable this feature.

• On your iPhone or iPad: Go to Settings > [your name] > Find My > Find My iPhone > Find My network.

  Disabling this feature means you can’t use it if your device is lost or stolen and turned off.

• On your Mac with macOS 13 or later: Choose Apple menu , select System Settings, click Apple Account , click iCloud, then click Options next to Find My Mac.

• On your Mac with macOS 12 or earlier: Choose Apple menu , select System Preferences, click Apple Account , click iCloud, then click Options next to Find My Mac.