The Perquisites of iOS Family Location Sharing Services

Maximizing Your Apple Device to Your Family’s Peace of Mind

aladdin cruz
3 min readOct 13, 2017

The Apple creatives has added the Family Location Sharing feature when the ‘iOS 8’ was launched. Location services was improved from a mere separate software application. It now comes along with the device or gadget. The family location sharing services is just a part of the Family Sharing facet of the iOS 8. But it is found by most users as useful as it should be. This new feature will let your location details be displayed once accessed. If there will be a group created or may be tagged as ‘family’ perhaps, provided that all the members have the same apple device with the updated operating system, everyone can share their geographical location without any extra charge or different application.

Using the Family Location Sharing in Apple Devices

The Family Sharing services was first launched not just for the location services but also to take advantage of a common storage within a created a group or a ‘family’. All separate Apple accounts can be grouped on a single ‘account’ which lets all its members to gain access on the downloaded software, synchronized music, photo galleries, planners, and notes. This must be permitted in each individual account in order for it to work. From this function, comes the most ‘family-friendly’ function, which is the shared location details.

The Family Shared Location details may seem like surveillance, spying, or any sort of monitoring to their members, but the brighter side of it is to enhance the parenting to the children of the family. It is not just about gaining control to the whereabout of the kids but it is to pursue an established confirmation of where their kids are. Indeed, it may be annoying on the part of the kids, but it builds the confidence and relationship between the parents and the kids such that they do not need to lie of the places they have been. Moreover, this new feature is added by the Apple creatives to show all its users that there is an innovative and a modernized way of parenting style, communication among the family members, and a catalyzed future for the family’s well-being

The Family Location Services Interface of iOS

The very first thing to do when using the family location services is to devise the family sharing feature on the device itself. This can be done by going to the iCloud section of the settings and add up the children’s devices as family members, as well as the desired ones. This is done through sending them an invite on each apple account. The next thing to do is to allow the shared location under the iCloud section and go to the Advanced section. Do not forget to tick the ‘Share My Location’. There will be users who get to use a single Apple account for many devices.

Since you were able to allow the family sharing location feature on each device, all of the members especially the parents will be able to display the location via the iMessage function or the ‘Find My Friends’. But this will be only possible once all the location sharing is permitted and the members were able to acknowledge the invite.

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