- Free
- Category: Social Networking
- First released: October 13, 2011
- Versions: 10 archived
- Installable: 9 of 10
- Availability: Still on the App Store ↗
- Seller: Apple
- com.apple.mobileme.fmf1
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
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Report an issueFind My Friends allows you to easily locate friends and family using your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Just install the app and share your location with your friends by choosing from your contacts, entering their email addresses or phone numbers, or using AirDrop.
When you share your location, your friends can start following your location immediately and easily share their locations back to you so that you’re both in the loop. If at any time you don’t want to be followed, you can hide your location with a single switch.
Find My Friends lets you set up location-based alerts that can notify you automatically when a friend arrives at the airport, a child leaves school, or a family member arrives home safely. You can also set up alerts to notify friends about changes in your location.
When you use Find My Friends, your location can be shared from any of your iOS devices, allowing you to choose the device you have with you most often. If you have a cellular capable Apple Watch, Find My Friends will even switch your location to your Apple Watch whenever you are away from your iPhone. For best location accuracy and notification performance, make sure Wi-Fi is enabled on your device.
FEATURES
• Easily locate friends and family • Location-based notifications • Simple privacy controls • Parental restrictions • Free for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch • Share your location temporarily or permanently • Quickly share your location with nearby friends using AirDrop • Use phone number or email address to share your location and invite friends to share back • Support for 3D Touch
How Your Data is used When you have Location Services enabled, you can share your device’s current location with anyone you choose using Find My Friends and Share My Location. When using these features, your location is only sent to Apple if it is actively requested by a friend you are sharing with, and retained for 2 hours, after which it is deleted.
Supported languages: English, Arabic, Australian English, Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Canadian French, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hong Kong Chinese, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mexican Spanish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
REQUIREMENTS: Find My Friends Version 7.0 requires iOS 11 or later and iCloud. You can create a free Apple ID to use with iCloud on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac.
Bundle Size Over Time
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 40 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 14, 2011 | — | — | 624 | Free |
| January 7, 2012 | — | — | 1,865 | Free |
| January 7, 2013 | — | — | 4,421 | Free |
| January 24, 2013 | 2.0.1 | ★ 3.5 | 4,429 | Free |
| December 26, 2014 | 4.0.1 | ★ 3.0 | 7,772 | Free |
| January 21, 2015 | 4.0.1 | ★ 3.0 | 7,802 | Free |
| April 21, 2015 | 4.0.1 | ★ 3.0 | 7,963 | Free |
| October 16, 2015 | 4.0.1 | ★ 3.0 | 8,187 | Free |
| July 9, 2018 | 7.0 | — | — | Free |
| December 14, 2018 | — | — | — | Free |
| January 31, 2019 | 7.0.1 | — | — | Free |
| December 9, 2019 | — | — | — | Free |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 15I’ve got a brand new iPhone 15 pro and a brand new Apple Watch Ultra 2. How are these devices not supported?
This app has been trying to charge me 49.99 since August of 2023. When contacting Apple support I got no support although this charge has been continually challenged. Now unless I pay the 49.99 I can’t even sign into anything I actually did pay for! Lost pictures on icloud etc because I can’t pay for the icloud without paying a charge I didn’t make. I have several Apple products for sale because this is ridiculous and I am through with Apple.
I’m having the same issue as previous review, I used this on my older iPhone (7) but upgraded to a 13 and now can’t get it to download. Says it needs features not available on my phone (?)
Why it cannot be downloaded?
This app disappeared on my iPhone. Where did it go ?? I had the names of 5 family members on it . Diane vandervoort Vzzzdi
It makes it sound like you can find your friends without having to request them and let them know that you’re looking for them. This is a scam.
Used this before without issue. Now it has disappeared.
Once I have chosen, who I want to share my location with… I should not have to continue to make that choice! I delete my text messages frequently so that my phone does not fill up and every time it asks me do I want to stop sharing my location! If I wanted to stop, I would stop it but quit asking!
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.