What does the blue ring around a contacts picture mean? Not the transparent location ring but the solid ring around a picture, sometimes it’s blue others it’s Black or grayish

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Thanks for that info, TonyR77.

From what we've been able to gather, those colored circles likely indicate that the contact's location cannot be accurately determined. This is similar to the transparent circle showing an estimation.

This page in the iCloud User Guide page has some information: Find the location of your friends on iCloud.com

"On the map, your friends are represented by orange dots with their initials or profile pictures. Your location appears as a blue dot. The shadows around the dots indicate the location’s accuracy (the smaller the shadow the better)."

We hope this helps.

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