With these steps, you and your family members can share their location with each other from your iPhone.
With the world as it is, it’s always a good idea to know where our family members are at all times for their well-being or that they know ours. The good news is, with the gadgets we carry around all day, we can make this a reality. Today we offer you a tutorial so you can learn how to share the location between family members with your iPhoneHowever, thanks to a second method, you will not need that all the mobiles in your house are produced by those in Cupertino.
How to share location between parents on iPhone
- Share your location in real time with the Find iPhone app.
- Share your location in real time with Google Maps.
1. Share your location with the Find iPhone app
If you want to know the location of your loved ones or if you want them to know yours, you will need to set up the Family Sharing feature in your iPhone’s settings menu first. For that, you just need to follow these steps:
- Open the app Settings on your iPhone.
- Have an Apple ID –the first choice at all-.
- To choose ‘Share with family‘.
- Press on Configure family.
- On the next screen, press’Invite people‘.
- You will need to ask the other person to enter your Apple ID and password on your iPhone.
You can invite up to five members to the family sharing option. Once you have configured the accounts of the people you want to onboard, All you have to do is follow these steps on each of the devices configured to be able to share their locations.
- Open the app again Settings.
- Enter Apple ID.
- Press on Meet.
- Activate the function ‘Share my location‘.
This will allow your iPhone to share your location with the rest of the family group members. Sure, you will need to configure it on the other devices so that they can also share their location data with the rest of the group.
To improve location accuracy, you can also follow these steps:
- Enter a Settings on your iPhone.
- and one confidentiality.
- Enter Site and activate the function.
- Now, in that same menu, scroll down until you find the Search app.
- Tap on it and activate the option ‘Precise location‘which you will see in the menu.
Ready. Perform these final steps on other family members’ devices and you will be ready to take the next step: see the location of your loved ones in real time using the Find application on your iPhone.
How to see the location of my loved ones on iPhone
Once you have configured the previous steps, you are ready to start locating all your loved ones within the map. To do so, you just need to follow these simple steps:
- Log in to the app Meet from your iPhone.
- Go to the tab Devices.
- Here you will see the location of the other family members on the list.
- Tap devices to view your location or play location sounds on your respective devices.
The best part is that neither you nor your family members will have to do anything else. Unlike other third-party apps, Find allows us to check the real-time location of our loved ones without them having to share additional information with us, just the initial setup that you have already done.
2. How to share the location among family members with Google Maps
Of course, the above option is great if everyone in your family has iPhone devices, but we know it’s not usually the most common in most homes. So here we bring you an option that will be just as useful regardless of the operating system
To locate your family using Google Maps shared location, do the following:
- Open the app Google maps on your iPhone.
- Press the profile picture in the upper corner.
- Press on Shared location.
- Grant location permissions to the app.
- Now, select a person you want to share your location with and how long you want that location to be available.
In addition, if you tap on More options, you will be able to share a link to your location with anyone in any app. The only thing that person will have to do is open the link in their browser and they will be able to see your current location for as long as you have deemed necessary, or until you turn the feature off if you have selected it.
That’s all for today. If you want to keep learning tricks on your iPhone, don’t forget to stay tuned to everything we have to publish. We recently gave you some tips for using iPhone in a car without CarPlay, and with iOS shortcuts you can make it an almost native experience. And speaking of shortcuts, we also leave you an article with the five shortcuts for macOS Monterey that will make your life easier.
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