One of the main features of smartphones is that which allows you to determine your geographical position with extreme precision, so much so that now smartphones can be used as GPS navigation systems.
Even without activating GPS anyway, having a smartphone in your pocket means always being traceable and locatable.
Precisely for this reason it is possible to trace and find the lost smartphone with applications such as Find My iPhone .
At the same time, it is also possible to know where friends or family are at any time, keeping in touch with them, knowing their position in real time and their movements .
We find in this guide the best apps to find the location of friends and relatives on the iPhone.
READ ALSO: GPS locator app to find and "stalk" with friends or family
1) Facebook
To find the position of friends immediately you can use Facebook, always if your friends carefully follow the steps suggested by this guide.
If we have not already done so, download Facebook for iPhone, then use the Friends nearby feature, present in the menu at the bottom right (the one with the three dashes).
To start using Friends nearby, first of all we authorize Facebook to access our location (all our friends must do with an iPhone) by going to the Settings and privacy menu, then press on Quick links to privacy, click on Manage your location settings and activate the item Location, placing it on Always from inside the iPhone menu (which will open) .
Now click on Friends nearby and activate the homonymous button inside, so as to always be visible when a friend is nearby (and vice versa see friends in the area if they have activated the same option).
2) The Real-time location sharing feature on Google Maps explained in another article is perhaps the best option you can have to find everyone's location.
3) Find my friends
On an iPhone we can install the famous free application Find My Friends, designed with the aim of staying up to date on the position of the people you care most about, friends or family .
Find My Friends can be used for temporary or permanent location.
All you need to start using the application is to associate your Apple ID which is also used for iCloud and indicate the contacts and friends who are authorized to view our position (of course, the other friends or relatives must also have the same app up and running).
To know the location of a friend or relative with the & Find My Friends app , you must first send them an invitation via email, directly from the application.
Similarly, friends and acquaintances who want to start following our position can invite us to accept the invitation to be tracked on their iPhone.
This app allows you to track anyone's iPhone (maybe our kids, boyfriend or girlfriend) to check the location of his phone through the application.
Even if you agree to be located by a friend, it is still necessary to activate the detection function on the application otherwise you will remain hidden.
This app is useful even if we want to follow other people temporarily, by setting an "expiration" time after which the tracking service stops.
It can also be activated to send the iPhone location automatically, when it is in a particular place .
This can be used, for example, to find out when children arrive at school or when a friend arrives at an appointment in a place.
4) Family Locator - GPS Tracker
Another very useful app to track family members and relatives to follow is Family Locator - GPS Tracker .
This application is very simple to use: you register the devices to the same account and install the app, so as to allow you to take advantage of the GPS and the iPhone location service to track the whole family.
We can thus see the path taken by each family member, including minors, with the possibility of also recovering the position and the journeys made in the previous 7 days.
With this app we can receive an alert if the place where they are going is not safe, in case of need send / receive an SOS with the location, find them with reality, activate the Geofence function for a place when they go there, receive a notification when they leave the chosen or delimited position and send the notification I am here to tell others where you are at that moment.
Truly an inevitable app to be able to monitor younger children or other family members.
5) Find iPhone, Friends & Family
Another app that we can use to monitor friends and family relatives is Find iPhone, Friends & Family .
Once installed on all devices and the shared account is enabled, we can provide the location of each iPhone on the map, with the possibility of immediately sending text messages in the integrated chat (where you can also send the current position immediately, so as to reassure relatives and friends).
Another really interesting feature is the real-time control of the route traveled on the road, thanks to GPS : for example, we will be able to find out at what speed our children just over the age of 18 and therefore enabled to drive, so that we can warn them of speeding in a timely manner before that they can get hurt.
Excellent the ability to check the history of the locations and routes made, so you can immediately reach friends and relatives in a certain place without having to use other less effective systems (such as sharing coordinates on chat).
6) Other methods and apps for finding the location of friends and relatives
In addition to these apps, we can also use the location sharing offered by WhatsApp and Telegram, the two most popular chat tools currently on Android and iPhone.
To use location sharing on WhatsApp simply open the chat with a friend, then click on the + symbol in the bottom left and use the Location item.
If, on the other hand, we want to share the position on Telegram, we open the app and go into a chat with a friend or relative, then click on the paperclip symbol at the bottom left; from here just click on Location to share your current location.
Other alternatives to those shown in this guide can be found in the guide on how to send your position from your mobile phone or share our movements on the map.
READ ALSO: Locate a friend with iPhone to know where he is .
Even without activating GPS anyway, having a smartphone in your pocket means always being traceable and locatable.
Precisely for this reason it is possible to trace and find the lost smartphone with applications such as Find My iPhone .
At the same time, it is also possible to know where friends or family are at any time, keeping in touch with them, knowing their position in real time and their movements .
We find in this guide the best apps to find the location of friends and relatives on the iPhone.
READ ALSO: GPS locator app to find and "stalk" with friends or family
1) Facebook
To find the position of friends immediately you can use Facebook, always if your friends carefully follow the steps suggested by this guide.
If we have not already done so, download Facebook for iPhone, then use the Friends nearby feature, present in the menu at the bottom right (the one with the three dashes).
To start using Friends nearby, first of all we authorize Facebook to access our location (all our friends must do with an iPhone) by going to the Settings and privacy menu, then press on Quick links to privacy, click on Manage your location settings and activate the item Location, placing it on Always from inside the iPhone menu (which will open) .
Now click on Friends nearby and activate the homonymous button inside, so as to always be visible when a friend is nearby (and vice versa see friends in the area if they have activated the same option).
2) The Real-time location sharing feature on Google Maps explained in another article is perhaps the best option you can have to find everyone's location.
3) Find my friends
On an iPhone we can install the famous free application Find My Friends, designed with the aim of staying up to date on the position of the people you care most about, friends or family .
Find My Friends can be used for temporary or permanent location.
All you need to start using the application is to associate your Apple ID which is also used for iCloud and indicate the contacts and friends who are authorized to view our position (of course, the other friends or relatives must also have the same app up and running).
To know the location of a friend or relative with the & Find My Friends app , you must first send them an invitation via email, directly from the application.
Similarly, friends and acquaintances who want to start following our position can invite us to accept the invitation to be tracked on their iPhone.
This app allows you to track anyone's iPhone (maybe our kids, boyfriend or girlfriend) to check the location of his phone through the application.
Even if you agree to be located by a friend, it is still necessary to activate the detection function on the application otherwise you will remain hidden.
This app is useful even if we want to follow other people temporarily, by setting an "expiration" time after which the tracking service stops.
It can also be activated to send the iPhone location automatically, when it is in a particular place .
This can be used, for example, to find out when children arrive at school or when a friend arrives at an appointment in a place.
4) Family Locator - GPS Tracker
Another very useful app to track family members and relatives to follow is Family Locator - GPS Tracker .
This application is very simple to use: you register the devices to the same account and install the app, so as to allow you to take advantage of the GPS and the iPhone location service to track the whole family.
We can thus see the path taken by each family member, including minors, with the possibility of also recovering the position and the journeys made in the previous 7 days.
With this app we can receive an alert if the place where they are going is not safe, in case of need send / receive an SOS with the location, find them with reality, activate the Geofence function for a place when they go there, receive a notification when they leave the chosen or delimited position and send the notification I am here to tell others where you are at that moment.
Truly an inevitable app to be able to monitor younger children or other family members.
5) Find iPhone, Friends & Family
Another app that we can use to monitor friends and family relatives is Find iPhone, Friends & Family .
Once installed on all devices and the shared account is enabled, we can provide the location of each iPhone on the map, with the possibility of immediately sending text messages in the integrated chat (where you can also send the current position immediately, so as to reassure relatives and friends).
Another really interesting feature is the real-time control of the route traveled on the road, thanks to GPS : for example, we will be able to find out at what speed our children just over the age of 18 and therefore enabled to drive, so that we can warn them of speeding in a timely manner before that they can get hurt.
Excellent the ability to check the history of the locations and routes made, so you can immediately reach friends and relatives in a certain place without having to use other less effective systems (such as sharing coordinates on chat).
6) Other methods and apps for finding the location of friends and relatives
In addition to these apps, we can also use the location sharing offered by WhatsApp and Telegram, the two most popular chat tools currently on Android and iPhone.
To use location sharing on WhatsApp simply open the chat with a friend, then click on the + symbol in the bottom left and use the Location item.
If, on the other hand, we want to share the position on Telegram, we open the app and go into a chat with a friend or relative, then click on the paperclip symbol at the bottom left; from here just click on Location to share your current location.
Other alternatives to those shown in this guide can be found in the guide on how to send your position from your mobile phone or share our movements on the map.
READ ALSO: Locate a friend with iPhone to know where he is .
