(We presume the units match your country’s preferred measurement units. New in Find My Friends 2.1 is a purple button that you can drag to change the radius of the notification area, with the size of the radius shown. Once you’ve selected a location, note the purple circle that appears around the pin that marks the spot. (To change the map position, drag the pin indicating your friend’s current location to the desired spot, remembering that you can pinch to change the zoom level of the map.) You can then specify a location: your friend’s current location, a different position on the map, or a location found by searching in the field at the top. To set a notification location, tap one of your friends in the Find My Friends list, and tap the Notify Me button.

Little Help from Find My Friends,” 1 February 2012.) (Of course, for this to work at all, you must have been given permission to track your friends’ locations, either permanently or on a temporary basis - see “ I Get by (and a Lift) with a #1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announcedĪpple has updated its free Find My Friends iOS app to version 2.1, providing “a new UI to search for and set location-based notifications.” Location-based notifications, which alert you when a friend enters or leaves a particular location, aren’t new, but now you can specify the radius around a location, making the feature more forgiving when locations don’t match addresses perfectly and providing advance warning of arrivals.1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blind.#1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook.#1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.

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