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If they are a member of your iCloud family and have sharing enabled, all of your Apple device locations will be visible to them under the devices tab. So it won’t matter what device is reporting back to your contact card. They can still see where your iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad are.
Guys, in my opinion that's crazy...
 
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.
For safety, please where do you live?
 
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.
Ahah you want to be the admin checking everybody else but now being checked... Typical sysadmin behavior
 
And if there is no trust in your relationship that you can't tell your partner "Today I'm going to do something for you, so please don't track me" and they can't respect that, I feel like location sharing would be the least of your worries.
If there is trust, there is no reason for 24/7 tracking...
 
If there is trust, there is no reason for 24/7 tracking...
Once again, if the only narrow minded reason you see for this feature is for stalking purposes, then maybe you’re the one with the trust issues.

Let me give you an example so you can broaden your horizons. Let’s just say someone’s spouse is driving on a dark highway in the middle of the night and drives off the road for whatever reason. Tire blowout. No witnesses around to see it. The spouse is sitting there unconscious in a car, off the road in a dark ditch. Other spouse keeps calling and no answer on the phone. Now what? Do you understand now???
 
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Once again, if the only narrow minded reason you see for this feature is for stalking purposes, then maybe you’re the one with the trust issues.

Let me give you an example so you can broaden your horizons. Let’s just say someone’s spouse is driving on a dark highway in the middle of the night and drives off the road for whatever reason. Tire blowout. No witnesses around to see it. The spouse is sitting there unconscious in a car, off the road in a dark ditch. Other spouse keeps calling and no answer on the phone. Now what? Do you understand now???
Call 112 and they will track her...
 
Call 112 and they will track her...
It’s 911 in my neck of the woods and being an LEO, I know how these systems work. Rather than explain, here’s a link for your reading pleasure. And no, I’d rather track her. She don’t mind, I don’t mind so there’s nothing to discuss. I’m my family’s protector. Oh yeah, she tracks me too for her sanity so she knows I’m safe when I’m at work.

 
It’s 911 in my neck of the woods and being an LEO, I know how these systems work. Rather than explain, here’s a link for your reading pleasure. And no, I’d rather track her. She don’t mind, I don’t mind so there’s nothing to discuss. I’m my family’s protector. Oh yeah, she tracks me too for her sanity so she knows I’m safe when I’m at work.

Dear, if you feel safer it is ok. And I can agree in your example, but what is incredible to me is the idea of 24h/day tracking.

Where do you live to be scared of reaching your workplace?
 
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.
Well marriage is a commitment level that's deeper than dating. Also, in a committed marriage, it's not "required" as a means to keep tabs on each other as you suggest, and it also isn't because of lack of trust, but rather we do it because we care for the well being of each other. Neither of us go anywhere that we'd feel the need to hide, so it's really a non-issue. And to be honest, we kind of forget that it's even on.
 
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Once again, if the only narrow minded reason you see for this feature is for stalking purposes, then maybe you’re the one with the trust issues.

Let me give you an example so you can broaden your horizons. Let’s just say someone’s spouse is driving on a dark highway in the middle of the night and drives off the road for whatever reason. Tire blowout. No witnesses around to see it. The spouse is sitting there unconscious in a car, off the road in a dark ditch. Other spouse keeps calling and no answer on the phone. Now what? Do you understand now???

Use Crash Detection on iPhone or Apple Watch to call for help in an accident

  • If you’re unable to respond, your device automatically calls emergency services after a 20-second delay.
  • If you've added emergency contacts, your device sends a message to share your location and let them know that you've been in a severe car crash.
 
First off, that’s not a fool proof emergency measure. I prefer redundancy just like the systems on an airliner. That crash detection system had several of its own problems in the past and I don’t trust it fully. What if it doesn’t fire? I only gave one example. What if a crash wasn’t involved? You don’t even know that we have supported devices. Ask my wife every day of the week and twice on Sunday and she’d answer every single time that she’d prefer me knowing where she is at all times than anyone else. For the record, I am a first responder.

Again, not my wife, nor I, nor our kids ever felt like we were stalking one another so what’s the issue here? If you want to go on sneaking around in your ultra super secret squirrel life, then that’s on you and it doesn’t affect me in the slightest.

This one will really make all your heads spin… we also set notifications for each other when we leave/arrive at home/work/school.
 
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Dear, if you feel safer it is ok. And I can agree in your example, but what is incredible to me is the idea of 24h/day tracking.

Where do you live to be scared of reaching your workplace?
You seem to be implying that we are staring at the Find My app all day every day checking where we are at any given moment. This is not the case. Nobody got time for that.
 
I can't believe people let other people constantly track their location on their phone. I've never used this feature and never will, nor will I ever expect anyone else to have me constantly tracking them.
If you have people with medical issues it comes in handy, especially when they become non-responsive.
 
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I don't believe switching the location "source" sends out these notifications.
Doesn’t it though? Since you have to turn it off on your phone first. When I disabled it on my 15 Pro to upgrade to the 16 Pro, I noticed my own notification in a group message thread (which doesn’t appear for others in the group, but they see it in their individual threads). Then I also noticed my friend’s location sharing notification when he switched phones.
 
I can't believe people let other people constantly track their location on their phone. I've never used this feature and never will, nor will I ever expect anyone else to have me constantly tracking them.
There are many reasons. Such as sharing with family for safety/medical reasons. Or making sure you know where your children are. Or in my case, riding my motorcycle (with crash notifications on).
 
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