How to share the location of an iPhone

Sharing the location of the iPhone has many functions that in some moments can be really useful, both to be able to know where a person is and to even be able to recover your device if you have lost it. Therefore, in this post we are going to tell you all the ways you have at your fingertips to be able to share the location of your iPhone whenever you want.

Before starting with all the ways you have to share the location of your device, for this you have to know that it is essential to have the location activated on the iPhone . This is something that many users disable by default. However, what we recommend is that you have it activated only for those applications that you really use and for which it is necessary. To do this, you just have to go to Settings> Privacy> Location and activate it for those apps that you want to have access.

Use messaging apps

One of the main tools that all users have at their disposal to be able to share their location through their iPhone are instant messaging applications, starting with Apple‘s own app, such as Messages, and continuing with both. queens in the sector such as Whataspp and Telegram. Here we tell you how you can do it in these three applications.

So you can do it in Messages

Something that Apple has done in a frankly successful way has been to give the possibility to all users of their devices to communicate with each other completely free of charge . The iPhone messages application is not only the app in which you can receive, read and send different SMS, but it is also a fantastic alternative to be able to communicate with other iPhone users completely free of charge.

Therefore, being a messaging application, which by the way more and more people use, one of the options or functions that it makes available to the user is to share the location of the iPhone . This is really useful on many occasions and being able to carry it out is extremely simple, as we explain below.

Open the Messages app.
Select the conversation in which you want to send your location.
Click on the icon of the person or people who are in the conversation .
Select ” Send my current location .”

Steps to follow to share the location on WhatsApp

Surely the application most used daily by a large number of people in the world is WhatsApp, since it is currently the queen in terms of messaging apps. In addition to allowing users to exchange messages and multimedia content, it obviously also allows you to share the location where you are through your iPhone. To be able to do it, you just have to follow the following steps.

Open the WhatsApp app on your iPhone.
Access the chat through which you want to send your location.
Click on the “+” located at the bottom left of the screen.
Select ” Location “.
Click on ” Send my current location “.

Telegram lets you share your location

Telegram currently has not yet been able to reach the entire audience that does cover WhatsApp, even so, it is after this the most used messaging application due to the fantastic functions and options that it provides to all its users , since it really is not only an application to send messages. Among all these functions you can find, how could it be otherwise, the option to share your location at any time through your iPhone. To do this, you just have to follow the steps that we indicate below.

Open the Telegram app on your iPhone.
Enter the chat where you want to share your location.
Click on the icon that appears in the upper left corner of the screen .
Select ” Location “.
Click on ” Send my current location ” or ” Real-time location … “.

Share your location in the Find app

Leaving aside the messaging applications, we now go with the app that Apple itself has developed to be able to share the location of each and every one of its devices, obviously focusing on the iPhone. With the Find app, as long as you have the “Share my location” option activated, you can use it to share your location with friends, family and other contacts from your iPhone. Here we explain some of the options that this application allows you to carry out.

Choose the people you want to share it with

The first, and surely the most important thing, is to be able to choose which people you are going to want to share your location with from the iPhone. This allows you to do the Search app, and the steps you have to carry out are really simple. What we recommend is that if you want to use this app, take into account that people you give access to your location at all times. Here are the steps you have to follow.

Open the Search app and select the People tab .
Select Share my location or Start sharing my location .
Enter the name or phone number of the person you want to share your location with.
Click Send .
Choose if you want to share your location for an hour, all day or indefinitely, that is, constantly.
Select OK .

Name the usual locations

Among the options that you have available within the Search app, one of them is to be able to name the locations where you tend to be most often. In this way you will be able to provide the information of where you are to all the contacts with whom you have activated the option to share your location. If you want to name the most frequent places where you are, you just have to follow the following steps.

Open the Search app .
Select the Me tab .
Scroll down and select ” Location .”
Select Home, Work, School, Gym, or None . You can also choose the ” Add custom label ” option to create your own name for the location.

Change the device you share from

As we have repeatedly told you in this post, not only can you share your location through the iPhone, but at any time you have the possibility of being able to change the device through which you are sharing your location. In addition, as you can foresee, you can share your location from any Apple device that has internet access. Here are the steps you have to follow to do this.

Open the Search app .
Select the Me tab .
Select ” Use this device as My location .”

Share the location as a family

If you are within an Apple family, the option to Share your location as a family is really useful and also very easy to manage. In this way, in case you lose your device, all family members can automatically access its location , and vice versa, you can also help other members in these situations.

In order for all family members to be able to use this feature, the representative needs to enable location sharing through the Family Sharing settings. Once this is done, the representative’s location is automatically shared with all members and each member can then choose whether or not they want to share their location. All those who accept will be able to see the location through Find my friends or Messages.

Choose when to share

Another of the functions that exist within family sharing is to choose when you want the rest of the members to be able to access your location. This is really useful for those times when you want your location not to be shared, but later if you want to enjoy the advantages that this function gives you again. To do this, you just have to follow the following steps.

Open the Settings app .
Enter your iCloud profile .
Tap on Search .
Select the family member you want to stop sharing with or start sharing your location.

Change the device from which you share the location

In the same way that you can change the device with which you share your location from the Find app, you can also do it so that the location that you are sharing with family members is that of another device that you choose. To do this, you just have to follow a few simple steps that we provide below.

Touch Settings.
Click on your name.
Tap on Family Sharing and then on Share Location.
Select Share my location> From.
Select the device from which you want to share your location.

Find my iPhone as a family

Finally, we want to tell you, although we have already mentioned it previously, the benefits of the option of sharing your location as a family in order to help you at certain times to locate and recover a lost device. By activating Find my iPhone, if you lose it, a family member can help you recover it, since by activating this function the rest of the members have the possibility to perform all the following actions.