Published 18:37 IST, February 21st 2020

What happened to 'Find My Friends' app on iOS 13 & how can you still use it?

If you've used 'Find My Friends' on your iPhone, you will notice the app has disappeared from your Home screen. Here's what happened to the Find My Friends app.

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Find My Friends h been a very popular app amongst IPhone users which me it easier to help locate friends and family members. app would also allow users to check wher ir friends h left from work or if y are visiting some restaurant, while also making sure that y kw if ir kids have reached home. Find My Friends certainly proved to be quite a useful app; however, if one has used application before, y have probably ticed that orange icon which h two people side-by-side has w disappeared from main screen. So where did Find My Friends go?

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Here’s what happened to Find My Friends

dedicated Find My Friends app was removed by Apple after iOS 13.1 update; however, feature still exists. After removing application from Home screen, company has combined Find My Friends application with Find My iPhone app with recent release of iOS 13.

two apps have been clubbed within same application titled Find My. Apple executives h spoken about this change during iOS 13 reveal which took place in 2019 at Worldwide Developers Conference; however, iOS users are most likely t aware of this change. Also, when someone installs iOS 13 or 13.1, system does t tify of change and app simply vanishes from Home screen.

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It comes in a grey background and has a green circle with ar blue location circle in centre. ditionally, it does t take place of original Find My Friends app on your device’s main screen, which probably left you wondering why it suddenly vanished.

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Find My – Where can you find it?

For those of you who are struggling to find Find My app, you can swipe to right while you’re on home screen and locate it with help of search bar at top. You may also have Siri to look it up for you.

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How to track your friends using Find My on iOS 13?

Using Find My app, you can easily track your family or family members that have shared ir location with you previously, and vice versa. Here’s all you need to do -

Launch Find My app on your device. You will see three tabs at bottom section of your screen. To left corner, you will tice two people that used to symbolise original Find My Friends app. on it and you will see a display with a list of people that you have shared your location data with.

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It also allows you to track someone’s location with whom you have earlier shared your location data through Messs. To do so, you will need to launch ‘Messs’, n open chat window with one you wish to track. w, you need to on circular icon which sits right above ir name. Select ‘Info’ to display a map of ir location. app also helps users locate ir Macs, iPhones, iPs, Apple Watches and AirPods apart from just tracking ir family and friends.

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18:37 IST, February 21st 2020