THE NEW FIND MY APP
Master the combined new Find My app
IT WILL TAKE 5 minutes
YOU WILL LEARN How to find friends and devices in Find My YOU’LL NEED iOS 13, iPadOS, macOS Catalina
One of the many useful changes Apple made in iOS 13, iPadOS and macOS Catalina is the long overdue merging of the Find My Phone and Find My Friends apps.
Now instead of having one app for each job, you have one app that finds your contacts as well as your Apple devices. It has a terrible name – Find My – but as we’ll see, it’s very easy and very effective. If your devices don’t run the latest versions of iOS, iPadOS and macOS, you’ll still be able to find them from your other devices, but if you want to find people or hardware from those devices you’ll have to use Find My Friends, Find My Phone or the web-based iCloud version.
Share where
In order to use Find My, you need to be sharing your location. If you haven’t already set that up, you can do so by opening the app and then tapping on Start Sharing Location. You can also share your location with a specific person by entering their name or number and specifying how long you’d like to share your location for: an hour, a day or indefinitely. For safety reasons, Apple doesn’t let you follow somebody’s location unless you first agree to share your location with them.
You can turn off location sharing at any time. If you’ve shared with a specific person you can click or tap on them in Find My and then choose Stop Sharing My Location; if you want to stop sharing with everyone you can turn that off in the Me section.