Where has Find My Friends gone and how do I track my friends?

(Pocket-lint) - Apple's bundle updates bring with them respective caller features but determination is 1 alteration you whitethorn not person realised was going to hap until you couldn't find what you were looking for immoderate longer: Find My Friends disappeared with iOS 13 successful 2019.

If you utilized the Find My Friends app and person updated your device, you volition person noticed the orangish icon with the 2 radical side-by-side has vanished from your location screen. 

Here's what's happened and what Find My Friends has been replaced with.

Where has Find My Friends gone?

The Find My Friends app and the Find My iPhone app were combined successful the merchandise of iOS 13 successful 2019. Both are present wrong an app called 'Find My'.

The Find My app has a grey inheritance with a greenish ellipse and the bluish determination ellipse successful the centre. It doesn't automatically instrumentality the spot of the Find My Friends app connected your location screen, which is wherefore you mightiness person been wondering wherever it got to. 

If you can't find the Find My app, swipe near to close from your location surface and usage the hunt barroom astatine the apical of your screen. Or you tin inquire Siri to find unfastened it for you.

How bash I way my friends?

Any friends you already shared your determination with, and vice versa, volition inactive beryllium disposable to way done the Find My app.

Open the Find My app and you'll spot 4 tabs astatine the bottommost of your display. You'll spot the 2 radical that primitively symbolised the Find My Friends app logo successful the bottommost near corner. Tap connected this tab and you'll find the database of your friends and household that you person shared determination information with.

You tin besides way a friends determination - who you stock determination information with - done Messages. Open Messages > Tap connected your chat with the person you privation to way > Tap connected the circular icon supra their sanction astatine the apical of your show > Tap connected Info > A representation of their determination volition look astatine the top.

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How to find a mislaid iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch oregon AirPods

As the Find My app features the Find My iPhone app arsenic good arsenic Find My Friends, you'll request to unfastened the Find My app to way a mislaid Apple device, whether that's your AirPods oregon your Apple Watch.

We've gone into much item connected however to way a mislaid iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods oregon Mac successful our abstracted feature, but successful a nutshell, you'll request to caput into the Devices tab astatine the bottommost of the Find My app to spot immoderate Apple devices connected to your Apple ID. There is besides an Items tab, wherever you volition find immoderate AirTags you person registered to your Apple ID, oregon 3rd enactment trackers compatible with the Find My app.

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Writing by Britta O'Boyle. Originally published connected 9 October 2019.