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Same as the (unanswered) https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8061914: is there anywhere to choose which devices get notifications for Find My? Like person X started sharing location, or when you enable "person X has left this place"-type notifications. I have an iPhone and an iPad that mostly stays at home, and all Find My notifications go to my iPad, which isn't very useful. Is there any way to change this?
It's my understanding that only one device can be your location. Although you also have your iPhone signed in for Find My, I would imagine that your iPad is the device sharing a location as 'Me'. If you look at the Me tab on Find My on your iPhone does it say at the bottom of the page: Use this phone as my location? This indicates that the iPhone is not your location and it is inviting you to swap that status to your iPhone.
If so, then the messages should be going to your iPad because that is the device registered as your location. The iPhone is an observer rather than a participant. I've set up and old iPhone as a second device on my Find My list just to test this theory. I'll see what happens and report back.
It's my understanding that only one device can be your location. Although you also have your iPhone signed in for Find My, I would imagine that your iPad is the device sharing a location as 'Me'. If you look at the Me tab on Find My on your iPhone does it say at the bottom of the page: Use this phone as my location? This indicates that the iPhone is not your location and it is inviting you to swap that status to your iPhone.
If so, then the messages should be going to your iPad because that is the device registered as your location. The iPhone is an observer rather than a participant. I've set up and old iPhone as a second device on my Find My list just to test this theory. I'll see what happens and report back.
radu242, I set up an old spare iPhone and signed into Find My. As I observed above, a notice was there asking if I wanted to use it as my location source, which I didn't.
I set up an alert from my wife's iPhone to tell me when she had left home. We travelled in the car together and the notification duly came to both my phones - my current iPhone 13 and the old 6S.
To answer your prime question: no, you can't limit the notification to one device unless it is the only device signed into Find My. You can turn it of for a device at Settings > Your Name > Find My > Find My iPhone.
Do you get any notifications on your iPhone? It sounds as if Find My is not set up properly on it.
Hi David, thank you for you prompt and detailed reply. Unfortunately, however, I don’t think that’s the case. Find My *is* set up correctly on my phone: this is the notifications settings, which shows the exact same as my iPad.
This is a particular case of these notifications going through only to one device. Has anyone else seen this?
Thanks,
Radu
Find My notifications are going only going to one device, can that be changed?
