How to share your location on iPhone (and do it safely)

Sharing your location with others can be beneficial in many ways: To meet up with a friend or family member, to get directions, or even in emergency situations. So how can you do it safely, and how do you stop sharing it?

Written by Maria Diaz, Staff Writer ZDNET on Sept. 2, 2022

Beyond just meeting up with friends, sharing your iPhone’s location can help you find your phone if you lose it. It can also help keep you safe in potentially dangerous situations, like when meeting a seller from an online marketplace. Plus, with many parents sending their kids off to college for the first time this fall, using it the right way can be an option to help put minds at ease this back to school season.

The best feature about sharing your location is that nobody can view it without your permission. This means that someone else won’t have access to your location unless you supply them that access. 

Even when you do share your location with someone, you can stop sharing it at any time in your iPhone’s settings, another great reason to learn how to do this.

How to share your location on iPhone

Before you share your location, you have to enable location services, something that many people keep disabled for privacy reasons. To turn on Location Services, go to your iPhone’s Settings, select Privacy, and tap on Location Services, you can toggle it on and off on this page. 

…To read the rest click here