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Hide iPhone Find My Location Without Raising Suspicion
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For my info, where do you live?
Just to understand which is the threshold of "safety".
Ahah you want to be the admin checking everybody else but now being checked... Typical sysadmin behavior
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???
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.
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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.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.
Can 911 Track Your Cell Phone Location?
If you're like the majority of Americans, you own a cell phone and carry it with you wherever you go. Whether you use your phone’s Global Positioning System (GPS) to get directions, track your fitness or simply enjoy the convenience of having a phone with you in case of an emergency, cell phones...
Where do you live to be scared of reaching your workplace?
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.
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.
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.
Triggered much? I just can’t compete with your ultra super private secure secret squirrel life.
If you have people with medical issues it comes in handy, especially when they become non-responsive.
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.
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).