In Find My on iPhone, open People and tap the family member's name. If they are not in the list, share your location with them first. Tap Ask To Follow Location; after they receive and accept the request, you can see their location.

How do you check a shared location in Find My?

  1. Open Find My on your iPhone and tap People.
  2. In Find My, tap the family member's name.
  3. If Find My displays a map, read the location shown on your iPhone.
  4. In Find My, read the result: a located person appears on the map; otherwise, Find My can display No location found or Can see your location below their name.

Apple's Find My locating guide explains how a shared location can appear on iPhone.

What does “Can see your location” mean in Find My?

  • What the Find My status means: Can see your location describes one-way sharing from your iPhone to the other person.
  • What you can do in Find My: Ask to follow the person's location and wait for a response on their iPhone.
  • What Find My does not do: A request does not change location sharing on the other person's iPhone.
  • What to check first on iPhone: Apple makes the request available after you share your own location with the person.
  • Where to start on iPhone: Use the guide to share location with family on iPhone before returning to Find My.

Apple's Find My request guide documents the request sequence on iPhone.

How do you ask to follow a location in Find My?

  1. In Find My → People, tap the family member's name on your iPhone.
  2. In Find My, tap Ask To Follow Location.
  3. Wait for the person to respond through Find My on their own iPhone.

Apple's Find My sharing guide documents how a person responds to a request on iPhone.

How can Messages request a location on iPhone?

  1. Open Messages on your iPhone and select a conversation with one other person.
  2. In Messages, tap Add, tap Location, and then tap Request.
  3. In Messages, tap Send, then wait for the person to choose whether to share from their iPhone.

Apple's Messages location guide documents this request path on iPhone.

How should two iPhones verify the result?

  • On the requesting iPhone, open Find My → People and confirm that the intended person is selected.
  • On the sharing iPhone, review the Find My request and choose whether to respond.
  • On the requesting iPhone, mark the check complete only when Find My displays a location for the intended person.
  • On the sharing iPhone, the person receiving a Find My request can tap Share and choose a duration, or tap Cancel.
  • If Find My does not show the person's location, ask them to confirm that they are sharing their location and that Location Services is on for Find My.

Which Find My status should you handle next?

  • A map appears in Find My: The shared location is available in that Find My view at that moment.
  • Can see your location appears in Find My: Ask to follow and wait for the person's choice on their iPhone.
  • No location found appears in Find My: Apple says this status appears when the person cannot be located.
  • The person is missing from Find My: Use the outgoing iPhone sharing guide to begin the sharing relationship.
  • You need an arrival estimate on iPhone: Use trip ETA sharing instead of ongoing Find My sharing.

How does Family Sharing preserve individual choice?

Family Sharing on iPhone can help organize location sharing, but each person still controls whether their location is shared.

Apple's Family Sharing location guidance explains how family members can choose whether to share from an iPhone.

In Family Sharing, each family member can choose whether to share their own location.

These detailed Find My and Messages steps follow Apple's iOS 26 iPhone User Guide.