Shared Now location in Find My is different from live location

my question is why sometimes just location and sometimes live?? How do I make it live all the time??

Geolocation is subject to interference and signal degradation, and—particularly in areas with marginal cellular coverage—can routinely be off by kilometers. Lots of metal around (signal shielding, signal reflections), and nearby buildings (shielding, reflections) and being inside a building (shielding, reflections) can block access to GPS signals, meaning geolocation can use less-accurate means such as cellular towers, and that too is subject to signal problems. Around here, it's routine to get one big circle around the probable location—I've seen ~5 km circles—given there can be only one or maybe two towers in use.

basicwife1 wrote:

my question is why sometimes just location and sometimes live?? How do I make it live all the time??

Sometimes there is interference, sometimes there is signal degradation, and sometimes not. What is is.

I might infer there’s more going on here, and that addressing whatever other issues or concerns exist might provide a better outcome.

That seems like the difference between coarse and fine; of rough and more power-efficient positioning (via cellular), versus more accurate (via GPS) and more power required (for the GPS comms).

Unfortunately, you can't. The iPhone is doing the best that it can with what it has to work with at the time.