Who Do You Share Your Location With?

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Who do you “share your location” with? Dad and mom? Companions? Pals? When do you take away the entry? When do you suppose somebody crosses the road with understanding your location?

Readers had an fascinating dialog final week about somebody who wished her husband to examine in when he arrived and left an occasion, with quite a lot of readers saying that is what “share your location” is for. And I’ve positively appreciated having the ability to see my husband’s location if he is touring, or my son’s location (by way of an Apple AirTag) if he is on a college discipline journey for a couple of days. We additionally put AirTags inside any baggage we examine.

However typically issues strike me as a bit bizarre. I’ve two mother buddies who began sharing location years in the past throughout a shared household trip and by no means actually stopped, and the Mother 2 will remark, steadily, on Mother 1’s location and whereabouts. I perceive that she is not wanting up Mother 1’s location (since you simply see everybody unexpectedly, at the least with Discover My iPhone), however it nonetheless strikes me as overstepping typical boundaries amongst buddies.

In the meantime, one member of the family (love you if you happen to’re studying this!) can be a bit fixated on Discover My iPhone — if somebody is late to dinner they’re going to examine in on the latecomer, and steadily will watch, with rapt consideration, as their sibling makes their means house from live shows or different outings. It is type of amusing as a result of this member of the family falls asleep throughout each TV present or film, however it is not an issue to observe Discover My iPhone for 45 minutes or extra.

I may see location sharing being bizarre in different methods, like with friendships which have grown a bit colder than they as soon as have been. Would not you be offended to see the “Jane stopped sharing her location with you” notification? Or with an ex with whom you share custody — I can see “share your location” being useful so you recognize when/the place the ex and your little one are in the event that they’re late, however I may also see it being means an excessive amount of info to have about an ex, even if you happen to’re on good phrases.

Readers, what are your ideas — whom do you share your location with, how do you deal with it whenever you wish to cease sharing your location, and the way usually do you personally use Discover My iPhone to search out somebody or one thing?

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