Find your friends and family with Find Hub

To find your friends and family, you can use the Find Hub app to:

  • Share your location with others
  • Find others’ location on a map
  • Take a few different actions for those shares

Set up your Find Hub app

To set up your Find Hub app on your device:

  • Sign in to the Find Hub app.
  • Grant app location permissions to display a blue dot on your map and calculate friends’ distance from you.
    • If you don't grant the Find Hub app location permission, you can still use the app to find your lost devices and to share your location, but you won't be able to see your blue dot.

Start & stop a share

Actions you can take per share

How to use and understand your list of shares

Manage your list and map

To manage your list and map, you can:

  • Use Filtering.
    • Sharing with you: You can find people who share their location with you. It includes people you’re not sharing back with and people you’re sharing back with.
    • You’re sharing with: You can find people you’re sharing your location with. It includes people who aren’t sharing back with you and people who are sharing back with you.
    • Neither: You can view all of your shares, including incoming, outgoing, and people you are sharing with who are also sharing with you.

Tip: You can’t select both filters at the same time.

  • Center your location within the map.
    • If you grant Find Hub access to your location, you can center your location within your map view. At the bottom right corner of the map, tap the My Location My location.
  • Use the + button to start a new share.

How to read the list

  • Map
    • It shows the people who share their location with you and aren’t hidden.
  • Hidden list
    • If you hide a user from appearing on your map, they’ll be placed in a collapsible list at the bottom of the list of shares.
    • You can unhide them:
      • Select their name.
      • In their contact details page, from the overflow menu, unhide them.
  • Legend for all of the information shown about a person
    • Users who share their location with you:
      • Name
      • Avatar
      • Current location address
      • Location last updated timestamp
      • If they can or can’t find your location
        • “Can see your location”: If you’ve shared your location with them and they can find it.
      • Distance from you
    • Users who don’t share their location with you:
      • Name
      • Avatar
      • If they can or can’t find your location
        • “Can see your location”: If you’ve shared your location with them and they can find it.
    • Users who share their location with you, but you’ve hidden:
      • Name
      • Grayed out avatar
      • If they can or can’t see your location
        • “Can see your location”: If you’ve shared your location with them and they can find it.

Location sharing settings

You can stop your device from sharing your real-time location without needing to stop a share in the Find Hub app. Learn how to manage your location sharing settings.

Tip: You can still use other device location services, like navigation in Maps, when you turn off location sharing in the settings.

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