The Find My Friends app on your iPhone and iPad offers a convenient way to quickly locate friends and family. You can use it to share your real-time location and let others follow the area immediately. They can also share their locations with you. However, sometimes, you may want to hide your location on Find My Friends and keep your current position private. This article tells three effective methods to help you achieve that.
Before telling you how to hide your location on Find My Friends, I would like to explain that there is no longer a dedicated Find My Friends app. Apple removed it after the iOS 13.1 update. But its related functionality is still available. You can access location-sharing features within the Find My app.
You can easily stop sharing your location with others in the Find My app. Tap People on the bottom part to check which contact can see your location. You can tap the contact and choose Stop Sharing Location. However, in some cases, you need to hide your location on Find My Friends instead of preventing others from accessing it.
AnyCoord is a reliable location spoofer that can hide your location on Find My Friends without them knowing. It gives you a simple way to change your iPhone location to a virtual one for privacy concerns. You can select a desired nearby address to display on Find My Friends. In that case, your real-time position will be hidden.
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Download the correct version of AnyCoord on your computer and complete the installation. Open this location-changing software and connect your iPhone to it. When you enter the main interface, click Start and choose the Modify Location feature. This feature allows you to switch your iPhone’s location to any position in the world.
The real-time location will be displayed on its built-in map as a blue dot. You can freely drag the map to view nearby places. To hide your location on Find My Friends without others knowing, you’d better select a nearby address where you seem to be actually there. Once you choose a desired location, click the Confirm Modify button. After that, your area will be changed to the virtual one on Find My Friends.
To temporarily hide your location from Find My Friends, you can choose to turn on Airplane Mode on your iPhone. This operation will disable all wireless connections like Wi-Fi, cellular data, and more. In that case, your location changes won’t be sent to the Find My network. The people you are sharing your location with won’t see your new location data. However, this is a temporary solution to hide your location on Find My Friends. Once the Airplane Mode is turned off, your real-time location will be updated and shared again.
When you want to hide your GPS location on Find My Friends, you can also choose to turn off Location Services for the app. To do that, you can choose Privacy & Security in the Settings and then go to Location Services. Scroll down and find Find My in the list of apps. Tap the app icon and then set the Allow Location Access to Never. You can switch the Precise Location to the off position during this step. After you disable location services for the Find My app, others won’t be able to access your location information on Find My Friends.
Question 1. Can someone tell me if I have hidden my location on Find My Friends?
When you stop sharing your location on Find My Friends, others who are tracking you will see No location found or a similar message. This message indicates that you have stopped sharing. If you prefer to hide your location on Find My Friends without others knowing, you can create a virtual location and switch your location to the fake position.
Question 2. How do I hide my location without turning off Find My Friends?
To temporarily hide your location on Find My Friends, you can choose to turn on Airplane Mode on your iOS device. Once the mode is enabled, all network connections on your iPhone will be disabled, including cellular data and Wi-Fi. This operation will prevent your iPhone from sharing any location information with Find My Friends. If you don’t like this temporary solution, turn to the introduced AnyCoord. It can fake and hide your real address with ease.
Question 3. Can I hide my location from specific people?
Yes, there are several regular solutions to hide your location from specific people. As mentioned above, you can rely on the Stop Sharing My Location feature in the Find My app. Also, you can choose to disable location services or turn on Airplane Mode to prevent all people from accessing your location data. What’s more, you can use a reliable location changer like AnyCoord or VPN to spoof your IP address. For some social apps, you can customize settings to hide your location from particular contacts.
Conclusion
You can learn three helpful methods to hide your location on Find My Friends. When you need to stop others from accessing your actual position, select your preferred way to easily control how and with whom you share your location data.
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