iOS 27: Find My App Lets You Hide Location From Others Temporarily

[MacRumors]

Apple's first iOS 27 developer beta, released on Monday, includes a new feature in the Find My app that lets you temporarily hide your location from select people.

A new "Hide Location" option appears in the user's Find My card in the People section, under "My Location." Tapping it hides your location temporarily for 12 hours before reverting to your previous shared location state. When enabled, the option switches to "Unhide Location."

As it currently works, enabling the feature doesn't appear to notify the person that you are hiding your location from them – your Find My card simply registers "No Location Found" on their device.

iOS 27 introduces a new "Hide Location" button in Find My that allows you to stop sharing your location without notifying the other person. pic.twitter.com/p0gIHsMy46— Aaron (@Aaronp613) June 9, 2026​

Apple intends to make a public beta of iOS 27 available next month, with a general release expected in September.

Article Link: iOS 27: Find My App Lets You Hide Location From Others Temporarily

 

[masterin]

Cheating loophole? Now that's privacy 🤭

 

[Johnny Steps]

Cheating loophole? Now that's privacy 🤭

If someone is tracking their partner because they already do not trust them, then the problem begins way before this feature was introduced.

 

[EpleSmeple43]

Yup, this is not problematic at all 👀

 

[Will Co]

Tons of genuine and non-creepy good uses for this. Yes, plenty of bad ones too. It's a tool. Use it as you will.

 

[-BigMac-]

As someone who has been cheated on before - this can be seen as a massive red flag feature. But in reality - if your loved ones location needs to be tracked so much - there’s a bigger red flag in the relationship than Find My.

 

[tipoo]

That makes so much sense. In retrospect it's wild for all these years someone would have to fully remove it, then re add that person prompting a notification.

Big W for all those sneaky links.

 

[Henrikr]

This is not even a new feature, you can do this today, Apple just moved the button and put a timer on it.

 

[Henrikr]

As someone who has been cheated on before - this can be seen as a massive red flag feature. But in reality - if your loved ones location needs to be tracked so much - there’s a bigger red flag in the relationship than Find My.

It can aslo be that someone is planning a surprise for someone?

 

[longofest]

There are a lot of legitimate uses for this. A relationship that begins as loving with mutual shared locations and turns abusive and now one wants to escape it, it could be dangerous currently for the one to turn off their location sharing since it notifies the other. This is much more clandestine.

It can obviously be used for less "moral" reasons, but I mean seriously guys? Are we going to be the morality police? If it has some legit use cases and the potential of abuse isn't so bad that its fueling a criminal underworld I'm all for it.

 

[longofest]

This is not even a new feature, you can do this today, Apple just moved the button and put a timer on it.

If you do it today it notifies everyone that you've shared your location with that you have stopped sharing your location with them.

 

[Henrikr]

If you do it today it notifies everyone that you've shared your location with that you have stopped sharing your location with them.

No there is a temporary activate/disable your location button in settings. It doesn't notify.

 

[JosephAW]

Great, now allow me to do that with apps. 🤔

 

[Ctrlos]

We all have family location sharing on just because it’s helpful to know where we all are if we split up on a day out or need to know when someone is near home to start tea. It also lets us keep tabs on our 18 year old son when he decides to get back from the pub at 2am 😅

 

[svish]

Surprised to see this option. Never thought such choices will be made available.

 

[ngextreme]

Perfect for that quick

 

[LarryJoe33]

No there is a temporary activate/disable your location button in settings. It doesn't notify.

Not selectively person by person you are sharing with.

 

[triumvirate]

Outside of your own underage children, I see no reason why any adult is entitled to your location every second of every hour of every day.

While less-than-moral spouses will possibly use this, it is no doubt exhausting being connected to others 24/7 for many people.

I just don’t share this at all with family/friends. I have friends who do, and it baffles me.

 

[LarryJoe33]

See, if strip clubs would just block GPS service for all patrons, we would not need this;-)

 

[ephone1]

Apple's first iOS 27 developer beta, released on Monday, includes a new feature in the Find My app that lets you temporarily hide your location from select people.

A new "Hide Location" option appears in the user's Find My card in the People section, under "My Location." Tapping it hides your location temporarily for 12 hours before reverting to your previous shared location state. When enabled, the option switches to "Unhide Location."

As it currently works, enabling the feature doesn't appear to notify the person that you are hiding your location from them – your Find My card simply registers "No Location Found" on their device.

iOS 27 introduces a new "Hide Location" button in Find My that allows you to stop sharing your location without notifying the other person. pic.twitter.com/p0gIHsMy46— Aaron (@Aaronp613) June 9, 2026​

Apple intends to make a public beta of iOS 27 available next month, with a general release expected in September.

Article Link: iOS 27: Find My App Lets You Hide Location From Others Temporarily

Finally! No more leaving my phone at home when meeting my girlfriend.

 

[JCCL]

Oh yeah! Girls, here I come!!! Haha yeah right, like if Find My was the thing stopping me

 

[RUQRU]

I hope my dog does not figure how to activate this feature.

 

[brijazz]

"And now, here to talk about our new Find My privacy feature.... Ashley Madison!"

 

[AppleWes]

Outside of your own underage children, I see no reason why any adult is entitled to your location every second of every hour of every day.

While less-than-moral spouses will possibly use this, it is no doubt exhausting being connected to others 24/7 for many people.

I use it as a safety feature as well, loved ones traveling or just day to day good to know they're ok and vice/versa. It's not exhausting since there's literally no effort to have feature turned on or off only mutually agreed upon if both sharing location.

Of course I agree no one is "entitled" to your location (unless they pay your phone bill) if someone is doing it for moral/cheating/control reasons they have much bigger issues to worry about in life.

 

[triumvirate]

I use it as a safety feature as well, loved ones traveling or just day to day good to know they're ok and vice/versa. It's not exhausting since there's literally no effort to have feature turned on or off only mutually agreed upon if both sharing location.

Of course I agree no one is "entitled" to your location (unless they pay your phone bill) if someone is doing it for moral/cheating/control reasons they have much bigger issues to worry about in life.

I do also understand it’s a feature that’s highly valued by many people out there… I get it. I absolutely get it. Especially when it comes to close family and children. I just also absolutely understand why people who use it would, at minimum, want to turn it off at times for some people, so good on Apple for doing that for them.