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Apple's iCloud Website Gains New Find My Friends App
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Your problem is that you're not an emotional child. Grow down! LOL.
How can I change to km? It is in miles on the website version... Not everybody is American and uses imperial sizes...
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I share location permanently with my 5 closest friends; people I'm not gonna be lying to about my location. If you're worried about sneaky wives/partners, that's no one's problem but your own.
Also is this the first instance of Apple Maps in web form?
Also is this the first instance of Apple Maps in web form?
they do have it on OS X, its a widget in the right side tab.....forgot what thats called? notification center???
Same thought here. I know exactly 0 people that use of it, even though the majority of people I know have iPhones.
I'd actually like to give my location to my friends, but nobody uses this. It's one of those things that some people maybe would want, but they don't bother setting it up, kinda like Apple Pay.
Yeah, people always text me while I'm driving to ask where I am. Uh, I'm driving, so I can't answer. Problem is they aren't going to open Find My Friends to look for me; I wish they would.
Well we do have a widget now in El Capitan so that's something. But yeah, would be nice to see it integrated with Maps.
I want to know where everybody else is...but don't want anyone to know where I am. That would be optimal...
And seems like various others use it, even just going by quite a few replies in this small thread.
Now if only they would do the same for Maps I would be happy 
Oh! And iMessage!
Oh! And iMessage!
If you click on "Details" next to a user's name in the iMessage app, you can enable it there -- for 1 hour, until end of day, or indefinitely. So, you have some control over the duration, even if you forget about it.
My wife and I used it yesterday, as I needed to meet her at the airport and she could see when I was about to arrive. And she turned it on for the day, so I could see when she arrived safely at her family's house.
No, we don't leave it enabled all the time But, it's really nice when we want to meet or are traveling alone.
Once you share your location, they can see it by simply tapping the "Details" button in the upper right corner of iMessage screen, next to your contact name.
You can share your location from that screen as well -- either one time, an expiring duration, or indefinitely.
Wife and I use it all the time. I wouldn't be comfortable doing this with friends tho. Wife goes to college 1.2 hours away and this app notifies me when she leaves and allows me to meet her in the driveway every time - great security feature - no more "Where are you? You ok?" Makes for meeting at places at the same time fairly easy to do - esp on her 1.2+ hour drive home from college - say we wanted to meet at Target, I can meet her there within a minute or so of her arriving based on this. Nice to see I can access this on my Macbook now.
Id feel such a creep asking my friends if i could basically track their location...theyll let me know by text or phone if they're on the way...
'Find My Family' I could understand, for kids and such
'Find My Family' I could understand, for kids and such
Same here, it is so much better than texting and waiting for a reply for 4 hours only to find that they are at work!
Also, I would REALLY love to see apple add iMessage to the desktop services, several people I know are tied to windows computers at work so they can only respond on iPhone.
They added in a notifications center widget in El Capitan too.. It tells you where they are at if that location has a label.
Thanks for sharing. Didn't know there was a Widget in the sidebar. Just added that. Find it easier to use that than clicking on details in the Messenger App.