How to share apple location with android

With Family Sharing, you can share your location with family members in the Find My app or the Messages app. You can even help family members locate their missing devices in Find My iPhone.

How it works

The family organizer sets up location sharing in Family Sharing settings. After location sharing is turned on, the organizer's location is automatically shared with everyone in the family group. Then each family member can choose whether or not to share their location. When you agree to share, your family members see your location in the Find My app and Messages. If they have watchOS 6, they can also see your location in the Find People app.

With location sharing enabled, if your device is lost or stolen, you can ask a family member to use the Find My app to help you locate it. 

Location sharing isn't supported in South Korea and might be unavailable in other regions due to local laws.

Share your location with a family member

1. On your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, open the Find My app.
2. Tap or click the People tab.
3. Tap or click a family member's name, then tap it again to see the menu.
4. Tap or click Share My Location.

You can stop sharing your location at any time. Learn how to stop sharing your location.
 

Get notifications about a family member's location

You can set up recurring location-based notifications. This lets you know if someone has arrived at or left a location, or isn't at a particular place during a specific time window.
 

Choose which device to share your location from

You can share your location from a different device. For example, if you share your location from an iPad, you can share your location from an iPhone that you own instead.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Settings app.
2. Tap your name.
3. Tap Family Sharing, then tap Location Sharing.
4. Tap Use this [device] as My Location.
    

Family members can help you find a missing device

If you share your location with your Family Sharing group and you turned on Find My on your missing device, your family can help you locate the missing device. Family members can:

• See the location and online or offline status of your device.
• Play a sound on your missing device to help you find it.
• Put your device in Lost Mode if it was already set up with a passcode.
• Remotely erase a device.

If you don't share your location, family members can’t access location information about your devices. Without location information, family members can still help you. They can check your missing device's online or offline status, play a sound on the device, put the device in Lost Mode, or remotely erase the device.

Published Date: April 19, 2022

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A simple guide to sharing your Android's current location with friends who have iPhones

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This wikiHow teaches you how to set up location sharing on Google Maps on an Android, and send your live location to a contact. Your contact will need Google Maps on their iPhone to view your location.

1. Tap the multi-colored pushpin icon to open Google Maps. You'll find it on your home screen or in your app list.

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1. Tap your profile photo at the top-right corner. If you don't have a photo, you'll see your initial here instead.

1. Tap Location sharing near the middle of the menu. This will prompt you to set up your location sharing preferences.

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1. Tap the "+" and "-" buttons to increase or decrease the sharing duration. Your contact will be able to see your live location for the entire period of time you indicate here.[1]

   • You can select Until you turn this off to start sharing your location without a time constraint. You can come back here and turn it off anytime you want.

1. Tap the profile of the person you want to share your location with. If prompted, give Maps permission to access your contacts.

   • If the person you want to share with doesn't have a Google account, you can tap New share to generate a link that you can paste into an email or message instead.

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1. When you tap Share, your location will be available to the selected contact in Google Maps. Your contact can tap the link and see exactly where you are for the duration of time you suggested.

   • You can stop sharing your location at any time by returning to Location sharing, selecting that contact, and then tapping Stop.

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1. Open Google Maps.
2. Tap the menu button on the top-right.
3. Tap Location sharing.
4. Set a duration.
5. Select a contact and tap Share.

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