MacLife - UK (2020-02)

ONE OF THE many useful

changes that 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

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contacts as well as your Apple devices. It

has a terrible name – Find My – but as

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If your devices don’t run the latest

versions of iOS, iPadOS and macOS, you’ll

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hardware from those devices you’ll have

to use Find My Friends, Find My Phone,

or the web–based iCloud version.

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

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entering their name or number and

specifying how long you’d like to share

your location for: an hour, a day, or

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Master the new Find My app

Your friends and your things are now united in a single app

doesn’t let you follow somebody’s

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your location with them.

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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

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section. CARRIE MARSHALL

REQUIRES

iOS 13, iPadOS,

macOS Catalina

YOU WILL LEARN

How to find friends and

devices in Find My

IT WILL TAKE

5 minutes

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

macOS, so it retained the existing Find My Phone/

Friends apps.

Create

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