Imagine sharing your location with your significant other...talk about trust issues. Feel bad for those of you with insecure people.
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Yeah well if you live an honest life, then what’s the problem? I track my wife and she tracks me. We do it for safety, not stalking. I can see where she is and when she will be home without bothering her on her commute. We share a mutual trust and if she feels like stalking me, then so be it. Got nothing to hide.
What I can’t believe is living a life where you have to sneak around all the time. Seems like too much work to me to be dishonest.
Yeah, this is the most bizarre MacRumors article I've seen in over a year.
Believe it. Whole families, and extended families, do it.
I have a family account for all the family and we all share locations. I find it super useful to know where the kids are etc.
However, as the ‘adult‘ and the administrator of the account (and bill payer!) I feel that at I should be able to set a way that only I see the locations of all devices.
For example, I don’t want my family to know where I am in the working week (or reasons), but at other times I’m am perfectly fine with it. I believe that even if I do the MacRumors trick in this article or simply ‘turn off share location’ they can just look up where my devices are, phone, watch and cellular iPad. This is a bit of an irritation and I think there is some missing logic in family accounts to help handle this.
However, as the ‘adult‘ and the administrator of the account (and bill payer!) I feel that at I should be able to set a way that only I see the locations of all devices.
For example, I don’t want my family to know where I am in the working week (or reasons), but at other times I’m am perfectly fine with it. I believe that even if I do the MacRumors trick in this article or simply ‘turn off share location’ they can just look up where my devices are, phone, watch and cellular iPad. This is a bit of an irritation and I think there is some missing logic in family accounts to help handle this.
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Me neither. I would refuse to let anyone share their location with me all the time, unless they were elderly people who can't watch after themselves always.
I would also not enable this for my children permanently, only in specific circumstances.
Find My is flaky enough that I can just turn off sharing for a couple hours and blame it on Apple.
I have a girlfriend and we don't share locations. I would end the relationship if this was required. I don't want to know where she is either.
It's important to have a private life and not share everything.
" If you're secretly shopping for a holiday gift or planning a surprise party,"
OR PLANNING TO GET SOME SUGAR FROM SOMEONE ELSE THAN YO SPOUSE!!!!!!
Cmon lets be real yo! This trick a cheaters dream!
OR PLANNING TO GET SOME SUGAR FROM SOMEONE ELSE THAN YO SPOUSE!!!!!!
Cmon lets be real yo! This trick a cheaters dream!
What sort of nightmarish controlling relationship people are on if they are constantly tracked by their partners and need to use tricks to hide their location?? I bet it’s the same people who have couple profiles on social media 😅
Anyone else get Star Trek vibes? Cause this is basically “take off the combadge to confuse the bridge crew on where I’m currently at” but in real life.
Yet another one of Tim’s schemes to make us buy more devices!
My wife and I share location and we don’t have couples profiles. You’re thinking very narrow minded. There’s a safety aspect here and not just insecurity. I work overnight as an LEO. My wife can check Find My to make sure I’m safe without bothering me at work. I can mention plenty of other reasons why sharing location is important but I’m genuinely curious what reason would you have to not share? What’s the benefit in that if not for nefarious or dishonest reasons? Does it just make you feel all icky inside?
By definition, you wouldn’t know if your wife had any.
I believe this is only the case if you are in the same "family sharing" if you just simply share your location with someone you know it just shows the the device you choose to share.
You can tell Siri to turn it off or on. Unfortunately, you can’t send Siri commands from Shortcuts. Apple really doesn’t want things to be useful.
And as non-adults it feels like involuntarily wearing an invisible ankle monitor.
Not quite Deceptive Design but definitely Discouraging Design. It used to be a toggle prominently displayed. Now I guess they assume there are so many things dependent on location, that turning it off is not a small decision anymore and it causes a lot of expected functionality not to work.