Erich Meatleg

Q: Find My Friends push notifications question

Why do I get email notifications from some friends and push notifications from other friends when they arrive at a certain place?

I get push notifications when one family member arrives home each day (this is what I want).

I get email notifications when another family member arrives home each day (this is what I don't want).

How can I change the email notifications to push notifications? I am assuming that the setting mush be changed on that user's iPhone...

iPhone 5s, iOS 8.3

Posted on Jun 1, 2015 10:34 PM

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  • by sberman,Helpful

    sberman sberman Jun 1, 2015 10:58 PM in response to Erich Meatleg
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    Jun 1, 2015 10:58 PM in response to Erich Meatleg

    My guess is that the email notifications come from a person who has not set up iMessage properly for use with Find My Friends.

     

    See "If You Get an 'iMessage Is Not Enabled for your Apple ID Alert" at the bottom here:

    Get help using Find My Friends - Apple Support

     

    This is only a guess.  But it makes sense to me.

  • by ???? ??,Helpful

    ???? ?? ???? ?? Jun 12, 2015 9:58 AM in response to sberman
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    Jun 12, 2015 9:58 AM in response to sberman

     

  • by Erich Meatleg,Solvedanswer

    Erich Meatleg Erich Meatleg Jun 12, 2015 9:59 AM in response to Erich Meatleg
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    Jun 12, 2015 9:59 AM in response to Erich Meatleg

    Actually I got it to work with basic trouble shooting.

    We tried deleting each other from our FMF list, and it didn't work the first time.  Then he re-added with me my @me.com address instead of my @mac.com address. 

     

    As far as email goes, my @me.com address, my @mac.com address and my @icloud.com address are the same thing. But when logging into different chat services they are treated differently.

  • by Bonkers7981,

    Bonkers7981 Bonkers7981 Jul 15, 2015 9:05 AM in response to Erich Meatleg
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    Jul 15, 2015 9:05 AM in response to Erich Meatleg

    Hello,

    Maybe someone could help me with my situation, I do track a friend whenever he leaves a place , but im not sending any notification to him or not notifying him, instead notifying myself that he leaves or arrive, but many times happen now that he did recieve that notification that he left the place and and the notification came from my name