Mac Format - UK (2019-12)

iCloud wasn’t updated at the same time as iOS and macOS,

so it retained the existing Find My Phone/Friends apps.

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Master the new Find My app

Your friends and your things are now united in a single 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. Carrie Marshall

Genius tip!

Location sharing isn’t

an all-or-nothing option.

When you respond to a

location sharing request

you can limit sharing to

an hour or a day.

APPLE SKILLS macOS/iOS/iPadOS