On iPhone, first choose the job: send one current location, share a trip arrival time, begin ongoing sharing, view a person who already shares, interpret a Find My status, or locate a missing device. Apple separates these routes across Messages, Maps, Find My People, and Find My Devices. Use the matching path below so each iPhone task stays distinct.
Which iPhone location job are you doing?
- For one current point from iPhone, use Apple's Messages and Maps location guide.
- For one trip from iPhone, open the live guide to share an ETA with family.
- For ongoing sharing from your own iPhone, open set up family location sharing on iPhone.
- To view or request another person's shared location in Find My, open see a family member's location on iPhone.
- For the No location found state in Find My, open the No Location Found iPhone guide.
- For a missing iPhone or item, use Apple's Find My support page.
Apple's iPhone guidance distinguishes one-time location sharing, sharing while on the way to a destination, and ongoing location sharing.
How do you choose the right Find My route?
- On iPhone, identify the subject as one point, one trip, one person, or one missing device.
- On iPhone, match one-time, trip, or ongoing sharing to Apple's Messages, Maps, or Find My path before changing a setting.
- In Find My on iPhone, choose the outgoing guide when sharing from your device and the receiving guide when viewing or requesting.
- In Find My on iPhone, a located person appears on a map; otherwise, Find My can show No location found or Can see your location.
What do Find My People and Devices mean?
Apple's current Find My overview separates Find My help for people from Find My help for a missing iPhone, device, or item.
Apple's current iPhone guide to locating a person in Find My distinguishes a person shown on the map, No location found when the person cannot be located, and Can see your location when the viewer is not following the other person's location.
- In Find My on iPhone, a person shown on the map, No location found, and Can see your location are different displayed states.
- In Find My on iPhone, No location found means the person cannot be located, while Can see your location means you are not following their location.
What should you verify before ongoing Find My sharing?
Apple's current iPhone Find My sharing guide directs a sharer to Find My, then Me, then Share My Location, identifies the source beside Sharing From, and points to Location Services when another person cannot see the location.
Apple's current iPhone Location Services guide says Location Services can be turned on or off in Settings, then Privacy and Security, then Location Services, and says app access can be changed later.
Apple says each Family Sharing member can choose whether to share a location and can stop sharing; Family Sharing membership does not itself replace that choice.
These detailed Find My and Location Services steps follow Apple's iOS 26 iPhone User Guide.
