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iPhone Turn off notifying a friend when you've set a Notification on their location in Find My...?

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eli104

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New feature (I think) in "Find My" sends a notification to the Friend saying that you have set a notification for their location. I will sometimes set a notification for my daughter, so I will know when she has left school or work... but my daughter now sees this and thinks it's "creepy" that I want to know.

Can this notification of the other person be turned off?
 
eli104 said:
New feature (I think) in "Find My" sends a notification to the Friend saying that you have set a notification for their location. I will sometimes set a notification for my daughter, so I will know when she has left school or work... but my daughter now sees this and thinks it's "creepy" that I want to know.

Can this notification of the other person be turned off?
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Is the notification when someone sets my location alert new?

Yesterday I experienced something I never saw before: My iPhone is on iOS 13. My family is still on 12.4. My wife and I are defined as parents / guardians in iCloud family. We all share location between ourselves. What I saw yesterday is that my phone gave me a notification when my son set an...
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Ugh... and OK.

I am not sure I understand Brian's mention of Apple's "viewpoint". As a parent or even a spouse, I want to know when my wife/child is leaving work, school, a game, etc. to be alerted to their arrival home or to their next destination. In my daughter's case, I want to know that she's made it back to her dorm safely in the evening after work... but NOT every time she goes out and back between classes, etc. So to C DM's link, having her set the alert would ping my phone unnecessarily multiple times per day, when all I want to know is what happens on one particular day or evening.

<sigh> I understand about privacy, but since she's already sharing her location, why do I have to remind her (over and over) that I am able to see her location?!
 
OP my mother has the exact same issue with Find My as you. She sometimes likes to see where my sister is, making sure she is leaving work, or in her words "not in a ditch somewhere in the middle of winter." So you're not the only one.
 
eli104 said:
<sigh> I understand about privacy, but since she's already sharing her location, why do I have to remind her (over and over) that I am able to see her location?!
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Seems like it's mostly connected to the alert/notification aspect of it. If you simply want to just check the location that doesn't trigger a notification.
 
C DM said:
Seems like it's mostly connected to the alert/notification aspect of it. If you simply want to just check the location that doesn't trigger a notification.
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Right, and that's the rub. I have always been able to do this, but it means checking and checking over a period of time waiting for the location to change. The Alert Me feature means I do not have to keep checking... except now, as noted in my first post, my daughter gets annoyed that I am "stalking" her (even though I have been setting these alerts for years already 🤷‍♂️.

One of us may have to learn to live with/without it (unless Apple gets enough complaints).
 
eli104 said:
Right, and that's the rub. I have always been able to do this, but it means checking and checking over a period of time waiting for the location to change. The Alert Me feature means I do not have to keep checking... except now, as noted in my first post, my daughter gets annoyed that I am "stalking" her (even though I have been setting these alerts for years already 🤷‍♂️.

One of us may have to learn to live with/without it (unless Apple gets enough complaints).
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Unless your daughter is using location arrival or departure alerts in the same way that you are she could turn off notifications for the Find My app. If she's not tracking anyone she doesn't need alerts.

There used to be (not sure about current) a couple of jailbreak tweaks that would cause you to get a notification whenever someone checked your location via Find My Friends.

There might be a third-party app/service that will do what you want.
 
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