How to share location on iphone 11

You can choose who can find your location and how long to share your location with Google Location Sharing.

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Location Sharing availability
Share your location
Share with a person who has a Google Account
Share with a person who doesn’t have a Google Account
Stop sharing
Share your estimated time of arrival
Get someone’s location
Find someone's location
Ask for someone’s location
Hide or show someone's location
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Tip: Other Google products may also allow you to share a one-time location with others.

Location Sharing works even when Location History is turned off.

You may get a warning when you open Location sharing. Common causes include:

You're in a country or region where you can’t share your location.
Location sharing isn’t available for your Google Workspace domain. To turn on location sharing, ask your administrator.
You're too young to share your location.
- When our systems indicate you may be under 18, you can no longer share your location for more than 24 hours. Learn more about age restrictions here. If permanent location sharing was created before September 2, 2021, you can manually disable it.
- Your parent or guardian can manage Location sharing with the Family Link app
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Get someone’s location

Find someone's location

Ask for someone’s location

After you ask for your contact’s location, they get your email address, a notification and can:

View your profile to verify who you are.
Share their location with you.
Ignore your request.
Block you. You can't ask for their location anymore.

Hide or show someone's location

Hide someone's location

If you don’t want someone’s real-time location on your map, you can hide it. You can turn their location back on at any time.

On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
On the map, tap their icon.
At the bottom, tap More
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Tap Hide from map.

Tip: You can permanently block someone’s location from your map. Learn how to block another person’s account.

Turn on someone’s location you’ve hidden

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Enable your iPhone or iPad's GPS services so apps can access your location

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This wikiHow teaches you how to allow the apps on your iPhone to access your current location to provide you with accurate location based information.

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Open your iPhone’s Settings app. This is the app with the gray cogs icon, usually found on one of your home screens or in a folder labeled “Utilities.”
- If you can’t find the “Settings” app, swipe down on your home screen and enter "Settings" in the Spotlight search bar.
2
Tap Privacy. You'll find this at the bottom of the third group of options.

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Tap Location Services. This will take you to a menu where you can manage your location services.
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Slide the button next to Location Services to the "On" position. You'll see a list of apps appear once the service is enabled.
- If this slider is disabled, Location Services may be disabled in the "Restrictions" menu. See the next section for details.
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Tap an app to set its location preferences. When you tap an app in the list, you'll see the various Location Services options available for the app.
- Select Never to disable Location Services completely for the app.
- Select While Using to limit Location Services to just when the app is open and active.
- Select Always to allow Location Services at all times. This is only available for select background apps, such as Weather.

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Open the Settings app. If you can't enable Location Services, it may be disabled through the "Restrictions" menu. You can change your Restrictions from the Settings menu.
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Select General. This is located in the third menu of settings options.
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Tap Restrictions. If Restrictions are enabled, you'll be prompted for your Restrictions passcode.
- If you can't remember your Restrictions passcode, try 1111 or 0000.
- If you have completely forgotten your Restrictions passcode, you'll need to restore your iOS device through iTunes to reset it. See Restore an iPhone for details. Make sure to backup any important data before restoring.
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Scroll down and tap Location Settings. This will be under the “Privacy” section.
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Select Allow Changes. This will enable you to turn on Location Services.
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Slide the button next to Location Services to the “On” position. You can find this directly below the “Allow Changes” option.[1]

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How do I share location services with others?

Tap "Share My Location" in the Location Services menu. Make sure "Share My Location" is enabled. Once it's enabled, open a conversation with the person you want to share your location with in Messages. Tap the "Details" button, and then tap "Send My Current Location."
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How can you track an iPhone 4 you have lost?

If Find My iPhone was enabled in the iCloud settings for your iPhone, you can track it from the iCloud website or the Find My iPhone app on another iOS device. Log in with your Apple ID and you'll be able to see the last known location of your iPhone.
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How can I restore my iPhone location settings?

You can reset your iPhone location settings simply by opening Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset Location & Privacy. You can restore your previous settings from a back up. If you do not have a back up, you will need to set new location settings.

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1. Open Settings.
2. Tap Privacy.
3. Tap Location Services.
4. Slide the button next to Location Services to the "On" position.

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Choose which device to share your location from On your iPhone or iPad, open the Settings app. Tap your name. Tap Family Sharing, then tap Location Sharing. Tap Use this [device] as My Location.

In the Find My app, tap Me at the bottom of the screen, then turn on Share My Location. The device sharing your location appears next to From. If your iPhone isn't currently sharing your location, you can tap Use This iPhone as My Location.

The person you share this information with can track your location until you arrive..

How to share location on iphone 11