Locate friends and family from your iPhone
The Find My Friends app is a great way to find people who are important to you and share your location with them. Friends and family members who use iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple Watch Series 3 and later and share their locations with you appear on a map, so you can quickly see where they are. You can set notifications to alert you when friends or family members leave from or arrive at various locations.
![A Find My Friends screen, with a map at the top showing the locations of your friends, and a list at the bottom showing your friends’ names, their locations, and their distance from you.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5C913108094622D50F674514/5C91310A094622D50F67451E/en_US/d8a6e63df97356e1ae4d9251a393cdce.png)
Set up location sharing
Go to Settings
> Privacy, then turn on Location Services.
Go to Settings > [your name] > Share My Location, then turn on Share My Location.
Tap From, then select the device you want to share your location from.
Share your location with a friend
On iPhone, open Find My Friends, then tap Add.
Do one of the following:
In the To field, type the name of a friend you want to share your location with (or tap
, and select a contact), then tap Send and choose how long you want to share your location.
Select a friend who appears in AirDrop and choose how long you want to share your location.
Your friend receives a notification that you want to share your location and can either accept or decline.
Locate a friend or family member
You can find a friend or family member who is sharing their location with you.
On iPhone, open Find My Friends.
Tap the person you want to locate.
The person appears on a map so you can see where they are.
Set up notifications about a friend’s arrival
Select a friend, then tap Notify Me.
Choose whether you want to be notified when a friend leaves from or arrives at a location.
Choose the friend’s current location, or tap Other to create a new location for the notification.
You can ask Siri to locate a friend who has shared their location with you.
Ask Siri. Say something like: “Where’s Gordon?” Learn how to ask Siri.