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iOS 13

Guide

Share Your Location with a
Contact
PRIVACY & Share My Location, a feature
The new Find My app includes

formerly known as the Find My
Friends app. This safe and secure
feature lets you keep specifi c
TRACKING contacts informed about your
whereabouts for however long
you choose. To share your loca-
tion with a contact, open the Find
My app and go to the People tab.
Select Share My Location and
enter the name of a contact, then
tap Send. To stop sharing your
SAFELY SIGN IN, SHARE LOCATIONS & location with a contact, tap their

name and select Stop Sharing My
STAY CONNECTED Location.

Name Your Friend’s Locations
Sign in with Apple When your contact shares their
Logging in and out of apps location with you in the Find My
can be a pain, especially if you’re app, you can name that location
dealing with sensitive information and add it to that person’s contact
like credit cards. Now, with iOS card. For instance, I’ve saved my
13, you can automatically sign roommate’s current location as
into participating apps and web- his work address. To name a loca-
sites with your Apple ID without tion, open Find My and go to the
compromising your security. To People tab. On the map, tap the
use this feature, open Settings contact you want to edit. Drag
and make sure you’re signed in. the menu up and tap Edit Loca-
On participating apps, you’ll see a tion Name. You can select a label
button that says Sign in with from the list or tap Add Custom
Apple. Tap that button and follow label to make your own. Now,
the on-screen prompts. This fea- that label and address are added
ture is still rolling out, so it might to your contact’s card.
be a while before it’s universally
available on all your favorite apps. App Location Permissions
Keeping tabs on how apps

Set Up Bluetooth Tracking use your location improves both
iOS 13 brings the ability to track your privacy and your data usage.
your iPhone, even if your iPhone’s When you open an app for the
offl ine! To enable this feature, fi rst time, a menu pops up with
go to the Settings app and open three options: Allow While Using
your Apple ID. Tap Find My and App, Allow Once, and Don’t Al-
then select Find My iPhone. Tog- low. You can change permissions
gle Enable Offl ine Finding to the later in the Settings app. Go to
on position. Now, if your iPhone Settings, select Privacy, and tap
goes missing and has no signal, it location services. Tap the app you
will still be able to send you a lo- want to adjust and pick one of the
cation using the nearby Bluetooth three options; Never, Ask Next
signals of other Apple users. This Time, or While Using App. Some
feature makes it easier to fi nd apps require location services in
your missing device, and Apple order to work, so make sure loca-
promises that your data is safe tion services are set to automati-
from other users. cally enable for those apps.

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