Just got an Apple Watch SE for my 11 year old and Find My is not working as advertised.

I can see his device in Find My since it's setup as Family Sharing, but when I click over to People, it says "No Location Found" for him. I know you might say, well you're already tracking him thru the Apple Watch SE Device but Devices doesn't provide the Parental Security measures available in People. The features for geofencing notifications, etc. are all located in the People section. Very frustrating as I just bought this watch for this purpose and this is a huge setback. I've read all of the articles, signed in/out of iCloud, stopped/started sharing location, turned off/on location services sharing, deleted his contacted/recreated, etc. Nothing has fixed the issue.


My iPhone 14 Pro is on iOS 16.5 and the SE Watch is on 9.4. This article explains a similar issue but he never got a resolution. Find My people vs devices not working - Apple Community


Please help! We're going on vacation tomorrow and I need the security of geofencing.

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Posted on Jun 15, 2023 6:03 PM

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Posted on Jun 29, 2023 8:43 AM

RESOLVED: Well my son lost his watch after 1 week (geesh). We got a new one and I set that one up exactly the same way as the first one except that I created a new iCloud Account for him. The Find My location sharing is now working from both Devices and People.

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