Find my iPhone is now hopeless. The map is too vague and there’s no option to go hybrid or satellite.
what's going on? The other week my daughter had her phone pickpocketed and because iOS 12 had detail they could see the phone was still in the club for half hour before it started moving and they tracked it down to a specific house. Now, with the new incarnation you’ve got no chance of doing this.
Please bring this functionality back!!!
iPhone XS
re: I’m not sure why you got redirected to Safari. Nor do I understand why you’re at iCloud.com.
I didn't remember that either but the "If a friend's device is missing" section of Locate a lost or stolen device - Apple Support
does result in being sent to Safari and unlike going to iCloud.com from a desktop there does not appear to be any hybrid view (at least that I can find).
The instructions from that link are:
If a friend's device is missing
You can help a friend find their device if it's missing and has Find My [device] turned on:
This is all I see. No buildings. A few labels but this is neither use nor ornament if you’re trying to find your phone ! You need to be able to log out of Find My and log in as someone else in order to get the feature you need to help someone !
The new "Find My" app has the same Map, Hybrid, and Satellite options as always. Tap the blue i in a circle at the top right of the screen. More detail can be obtained by enlarging the map by touching the screen with 2 fingers and spreading.
The following may also help: Locate a lost or stolen device - Apple Support
I’m not sure why you got redirected to Safari. Nor do I understand why you’re at iCloud.com.
Read this carefully to learn how to use the map within the Find My app.
Set up Find My on your iPhone, Mac, and other devices - Apple Support
I’m talking about when you go to help friends find phone . Please tell me where there I can change to hybrid etc? I agree you can when you’re looking at friends but not when you log into iCloud through that app to find someone else’s phone !!! That’s what I mean
The difference is that one is find my iPhone and the other is a very poor iCloud version . This is obviously a photo of the old version . You can see which house the phone is in. On the iCloud version where you help friends locate their phone it’s almost impossible to know which house it’s in.
OK, thanks to FoxFifth and you for clarifying how you got to Safari. I understand now.
When I go there, I agree there seems to be no way to change the appearance to the satellite view. But I do see buildings!
First of all, Find My iPhone does not exist under iOS 13. That and Find My Friends has been combined into the new “Find My” app.
Next, if you are referring to the Find My Devices capability in the Find My app, then your statement: “there’s no option to go hybrid or satellite” is incorrect. Simply tap on the encircled “i” above the directional arrow to reveal these options.
Ok.. so you see why I think this isn’t as good? So my daughter had her phone stolen in a club. Someone she didn’t know helped her locate it by going into find my iPhone and they could see it was still actually in the club. This would be difficult to see via the new system of them rerouting to iCloud from the app which has no detail . Disappointed in this “development “ as I think it’s a retrograde step
You are not zoomed in sufficiently to see buildings.
You need to zoom the map in sufficiently. I don't recall the word that's the opposite of "pinch", but that's the motion required on the map to zoom it in.
Unpinch sounds good. Or perhaps the word is "expand"?
I've searched through some Apple literature in the past few minutes. They refer to "pinch open" and "pinch close". In this sense, I mean "pinch open" is the operation to perform on the map. But when I think of "pinch", I think it means the same as "pinch close".
That resulted in me googling "opposite of pinch" and I found (probably sometime before Apple changed their style guide to the open and close that you found)
from ( https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/iphone-the-missing/9780596513740/ch01s10.html )
The English language has failed Apple here. Moving your thumb and forefinger closer together has a perfect verb: pinching. But there's no word to describe moving them the opposite direction.
Apple uses the oxymoronic expression pinch out to describe that move (along with the redundant-sounding pinch in). In this book, the opposite of "pinching" is "spreading."
No, seriously, I can’t get close enough to show any buildings. They just aren’t there for me on my phone in my country (uk). I thought that was the issue to start with so double and triple checked but buildings do not appear for me on iCloud on my phone, no matter what I do or how close I zoom . I haven’t checked on a computer /iMac But I wouldn’t have one of those when out if a friend gets her phone stolen/lost
The map I displayed earlier showing the buildings was done on an iPhone (using Safari, iOS 13.1.2).
I would say I’ve zoomed the map in sufficiently that the area shown is actually about 1/10 mile vertically, and about the same horizontally. I am in the U.S.
Doesn’t work for me in the UK. In fact I think there’s a bug on the whole find my iPhone as my daughters phone doesn’t seem to update location at all even when on 3G. It seems to have a problem updating . It used to be so accurate ; not sure what’s going on now. Maybe there’s something subtle with the settings that they’ve changed. I know they’ve stopped tracking when on public Wi-fi but the 3G seems to have an issue here too
iOS 13 Find my iPhone
