Find my iPhone not working for family sharing devices

I am having the same problem with Find My iPhone. I have set up family sharing and have elected to share my location and my phone still will not show up in my wife's devices... Her phone shows up in my devices though.

Hey everyone thanks for your input on my question, I was able to figure it out! If anyone else has this problem, just un-install find my iPhone on the device that will not show up. Then re-install it and you should be good to go!

Thanks a lot!

This fixed the problem and it was not easy to figure out. I spent a long time messing with this.

After got it working then i toggled it back in the restrictions so that my child can't disable it again.

I solved this on my phone. My husband could not see my phone and I could see his. All setting seemed to match. Found System Services did not match.

Go to Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Share My Location. Problem solved 🙂 Happy Husband 🙂

Same issue for me. My wife's 5c will show my location but mine tells me that she is not sharing location.

There is also a greyed out box on family sharing with my phone and "not sharing location".

Very odd/

Okay, I figured it out!! It had to do with "Restrictions" I had previously set up. Settings>General>Restrictions>ShareMyLocations. I had selected "do not allow changes", that is why it was greyed out. Once I allowed changes I was able to enable Location services for Family Share. Bingo!! I can now see my daughter's phone on mine. Once Location services are enabled, I was then again able to select, "do not allow changes". Now everything is just how I want it. Hope this helps.... Also just an FYI....there may be some technical glitches still associated with FmiP. During this whole fiasco of navigated two phones and two iCloud accounts from my macbook. I had two errors and requests to send information to Apple regarding the FmiP app. But regardless, everything seems to be working.

Complete solution.

On the device that is not showing up go to

setting -> icloud -> advanced|share my location -> tick the share my location tab.

it should work after that.

Just spitballing here... is it possible that the Family Organizer ("parent") is permitted see the locations of the "kids' devices, but the "kids" devices aren't allowed to see the location of the Family Organizer ("parent")?

Bill

Try manually updating "Find My Iphone" from the app store on the device that is unable to see the other devices. I just had the same problem, with the update, and I instantly see my phone and my wife's phone and iPad.

Try manually updating "Find My Iphone" from the app store on the device that is unable to see the other devices. I just had the same problem but with the update I can now see my phone and my wife's phone and iPad.

HI, I am having the exact same problem. I was finally able to get my phone to show up on my daughter's by following your steps ( I will probably deactivate), however I still cannot get her phone to display on mine, which is my obvious goal. The advanced/Share Locations settings on her phone are greyed out and I'm unable to select them. All other iCloud, location, find my phone settings are activated. I am still using my iTunes account on her phone, as I want control over any type of purchase she tries to make, however I had to make her her own iCloud account to get Findmy phone to recognize her phone. I don't know if this matters?? Sorry for the long explanation, but basically, my phone recognizes hers via Find my phone, but it tells me she is "online and not sharing location" Can't figure out how to resolve this. Suggestions?

Thanks

I have same issue, just that restrictions in my child's 5c is off. No matter that, share my location on that 5c is graying out. Have tried out setting restrictions on and off again - didnt help. Would be grateful for any advise. :/

Family sharing doesn't have anything to do with locating a device with Find my iPhone or location sharing.

Sorry - it may not.. But it certainly looks like it is linked!