Find My Friends (geofencing broke)

[Imac Sam]

Just wondering if it is just me. But does anyone find that the Find my Friends App does not work for the geofencing alerts?

 

[GreyOS]

do you have background app refresh enabled and do you keep find my friends running in background?

 

[Imac Sam]

do you have background app refresh enabled and do you keep find my friends running in background?

Yes.

 

[GreyOS]

Yes.

Ok, well I don't have any friends to test this out so I can't tell you 😛

 

[Imac Sam]

I noticed the app will save "notify" in a color as though it is working, but I never receive an alert or notification.

 

[KeepCalmPeople]

A few days ago I had 'Find My Friends' notify me that my youngest daughter had left the house of a friend that, in fact, she had left more than two weeks prior to that (and not visited since).

Patience...😉

 

[Imac Sam]

Oh my. Haha

 

[Black Magic]

Just wondering if it is just me. But does anyone find that the Find my Friends App does not work for the geofencing alerts?

Yea, its been broke for a while. There is another thread out there with people complaining as well. Hopefully this has been submitted to Apple and they are working on it.

 

[Armen]

Just wondering if it is just me. But does anyone find that the Find my Friends App does not work for the geofencing alerts?

Confirmed here as well. The notify does not work for arrives/leaves X address.

background refresh on both phones for FMF is On.

 

[Imac Sam]

Resolved

So with the current iOS7.1 update, The geofencing/notification feature of Find My Friends App works again. However as mentioned before some settings that need to be adjusted on both iOS devices. Each device must have the Find My Friends App turned on in Background Refresh.

 

[ellencs1541]

background app refresh

When I go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh I do not see an option to turn it on for Find My Friends. Is there another way to do this? I'm still not getting the arrive/leave alerts.