iOS 15 Find My live location not working for one member of my family.

From what I understand, for Live location sharing to work you need 2 things:

• both phones must be on iOS 15 (or above)
• you must share your own location with the person that you want to follow Live

I found that it has nothing to do with the model of the phone, but Live sharing only works for the people I also share location with. If I follow someone but don't share my own location I don't get Live updates.

We have 3 iPhones all updated to IOS 15. The live find my works on some phones, some people, but no consistent pattern. We all have iPhone 12. For example, my daughter is live for me but not for my husband. Would love an answer.

I ran into the same problem, I ended up figuring it out and now everyone that I have in the Find My App is now saying live and is showing the exact location.

All you do is:

1. go to settings
2. click on the photo ID and name at the top of the screen
3. click "Find My" around the middle of the screen
4. click "Find My iPhone" at the very top of the screen
5. make sure that it is on
6. once find my iPhone is on there should be 3 options, saying "Find My iPhone", "Find My network", and "Send Last Location."
7. Make sure all of those are turned on, the middle toggle, "Find My network" will ask for your Apple ID password.
8. Follow the instruction it gives you. It will force you to make a passcode, I made a passcode on my phone, and it turned on, I made the password 0000 and once it turned on, I just turned the password back off again. The toggle still says on, and it now is saying live and working well, there is no longer a password on my iPhone.

If you want to know how to get the password follow directions below.

1. MAKE SURE YOU DON'T TURN YOUR PHONE OFF.
2. go back to the home setting page
3. scroll down to "Face ID & Passcode"
4. It will ask to enter your passcode; it should be the same one that you just entered to turn the toggle on.
5. scroll down till it says "Turn Passcode Off"
6. type in the same passcode and then it should be off.

Follow the instructions below:

1. Go to settings.
2. Click on the apple ID and picture at the very top
3. click Find My around the middle of the screen
4. click Find My iPhone at the very top
5. Make sure it says on and that the three toggles are green (that means all of them are on)
6. the middle toggle, "Find My network" should be on
7. To turn the middle toggle on, click the toggle and it should ask you for a password, type in the password for your Apple ID.
8. It should then ask for a password.
9. Make the password like 0000 or something simple so you remember it.
10. once you made a password, it should then be on and be working
11. If you already have a password, then you should be able to turn this on no problem.
12. If you don't have a password, you will have to make a password and then turn it off again after you make one.

Not sure why I had to have a password but it's the only way for it to work.

To turn the password off again, go to settings, Face ID & Passcode, enter the passcode you put in, and then scroll down to turn passcode off, and then re-enter the passcode one more time and then you should be good.

Now go into the Find My iPhone app and make sure it says live.

Go to SETTINGS, click on the APPLE ID & PHOTO at the top of the settings page, click on "FIND MY", click on "FIND MY IPHONE" at the top of the page, make sure everything is on.

The middle toggle should be easy to turn on if you have a password on your iPhone. If not follow the instructions below:

1. Click the toggle to turn it on. (For the toggle that says "Find My network"
2. It should ask for an Apple ID passcode, type your Apple ID passcode in.
3. It should say something like needing additional protection. So, click "Continue"
4. It should then tell you to put a password on you iPhone.
5. Type in a easy password that you will remember. I did 0000.
6. once you finish setting up a password, everything should then be on, and Live Mode will start working.

After you have the live mode, you can turn the password off again and everything will still be working the same.

1. Go to Face ID & Passcode
2. type in the password you put in
3. scroll down to "turn passcode off"
4. type in the same password
5. and then you shouldn't have a password on you iPhone and you should still have Live.

This is the only way I could get Live Mode on my iPhone and it works fine; I no longer have the password on my iPhone either.

Hey!!! I wonder if their is a conflict with the Apple Watch and the iPhones? 🤔 As you can see where it says My location it says ( This device and Cellular Apple Watches.. Why I say this is because my parents don’t have a Apple Watch and it shows LIVE for the both of them but my husband and I have a Apple Watch and ours doesn’t show LIVE.. This is just a thought.. **** it seem as if we gotta figure this issue out our dang self lol 😂

Question for you I do you happen to know that if your Apple Watch is Stand alone $20 or Numbershare $10. You’ll have to go to your account and look at you bill. Reason why I say this is because Stand alone shouldn’t interfere with Find My.. This is just a thought

Glad it’s not just me too haha.

I’m using a 12 Pro Max and should’ve had my 13 Pro Max today, but have been messed around a **** of a lot with my pre order, so was hoping this was gonna be fixed with a new phone!

Same here. My friends have iPhone x, 12, 13's IOS 15 and are on good cellular and VERY good wifi

When live DOES work it works great but most of the time its very intermittent, it may or may not work.

There doesn't seem to be any reason why this happens. One friend will be at home all day and he'll be live all the time and yet another friend will be doing the same and he'll be "NOW" all day ... or vice versa.

Possibly apples network cant handle all the live location requests ?

I have now tried to use Live updates a lot but and can say it simply doesn't work as advertised. It either works or doesnt for no reason at all. More often than not it doesn't work.

I thought it was gonna be one of the best things about IOS 15.

I have live working on some friends iPhone 8 phones that have been updated to iOS 15, but I also have other iPhone 8 phones that it doesn’t work on. I think the importance of the software matching is the first step, and if the phone is capable of taking the newest software then the live should work. No information on other settings to try.