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Apple's iCloud Website Gains New Find My Friends App
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Well you have to give them permission via your phone to do it. To tell if you are being tracked after you do that is a little harder. Basically you will see a GPS arrow pop up on the notification bar. Quite a few things use that same notification. Once you see it, you can go into your privacy settings to see which app recently used your location settings.
Not very intuitive but it should get you want you want.
Waiting for the day when they add iMessage to icloud.com!
Now if only they would do the same for Maps I would be happy
Oh! And iMessage!
Yes to all of these!
My work computer runs Windows and I've always wanted access to Messages on the iCloud website. Maps would also be super convenient, especially since as it is now you can't add a location-tagged event to the calendar via iCloud.com - I always have to go back and add event locations on my iPhone or Mac. Apple Music on iCloud.com would also be super awesome, but for me I would want first some way to merge Apple IDs before this would be personally useful, since I use a different Apple ID for iTunes/Apple Music than I do for iCloud (long story but basically, I started out with a .mac email way back in the day but after I already had a separate iTunes account with purchases on it. So it's super annoying that to to this day I can't merge these two Apple IDs. And means that I can't take advantage of family sharing with Apple Music....ughghhfghhh).
Ditto.... i too wish iMessage with SMS text message function can be available on icloud.com
I actually just thought of another reason why I would love this...hopefully, if iMessages came to iCloud, it would upload your existing messages to the cloud as well in order for this to be functional. As it is now, I have a crap ton of pre-iMessage messages on my iPhone that go way back, like to 2008 when I got my first iPhone. (Yes yes, I'm a digital hoarder, I know...
) These are conversation threads I would never want to delete for various reasons, but man, they're really starting to take up a ton of space on my iPhone, where my local storage is the most limited. If they could live in the cloud, or even be stored locally on some devices (like my Mac) but be downloaded on the fly on my iDevices when needed (much like how iCloud Photos and I think Mail currently works), that would be so very, very awesome.
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I actually just thought of another reason why I would love this...hopefully, if iMessages came to iCloud, it would upload your existing messages to the cloud as well in order for this to be functional. As it is now, I have a crap ton of pre-iMessage messages on my iPhone that go way back, like to 2008 when I got my first iPhone. (Yes yes, I'm a digital hoarder, I know...
Dont see how it cant be done. It's already possible with WhatsApp to backup chat threads to icloud.
The motivation for Apple would be, they will sell a lot more iCloud subscription.
Everything in icloud including the profile of all the devices (iphone, ipad, ipod, macbook, imac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and maybe,.. Apple Car in future) available via iCloud.com would be awesome... but i would like 2 factor authentication ala Google Authenticator app or biometric authentication as the 2nd factor, from Apple to secure all the data.
Our family uses it constantly. It's great for keeping track of the kids, or knowing where the wife is. Nothing creepy about it... Or, maybe we just have fewer things to be embarrassed about?
One of many many threads about this, people been trying various remedies (reset... Delete.. Stand upside down...) and no real fix:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7221553
There is. Find My Friends is a widget that you can add to the Notification Center. Just hit the icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to open it, scroll down and hit the "Edit" button, and add the widget. All set!
Hmmm. Sorry. I haven't experienced the issue. I see one of the solutions was to reset all settings, and it seemed to bring back the backups. Did you try that?
There wasn't a need to delete the app before as it wasn't pre-installed before.
Oh, that's neat. So the real problem is that none of them request to be able to see my location. Now that I think about it, my dad did that once, I think only for testing.