Instead of opening Contacts and searching for the person, just find a message from that contact. If you want them to be able to find you later, you can select Share for One Hour, Share Until End of Day, or Share Indefintely.Ĭhanges in El Capitan: Although you can use the Details tab, now there is a Find My Friends widget. With iOS, if you want to share your location with that person, select Send My Current Location. In iOS, it will show your location relative to that contact. This works nearly identically in iOS and Mac OS. If they haven’t agreed to share with you, there won’t be a map of their location. On any Apple device running Messages, clicking or tapping Details will show you the location of your contact. To use this feature the person has to agree to share their location with you. That’s because it’s been under Details in Messages. Until El Capitan, the Mac OS hasn’t had a dedicated way of accessing someone’s location. Let’s shed some light on the secrets of Messages | Photo by JuditK Find Someone’s Locationįind My Friends has been around since iOS 6. That’s a shame, because you’re missing out on some powerful options. You might not have noticed some special features. The Messages app on your iPhone, iPad and Mac is obviously used for sending an iMessage or SMS messages to other people.
