Has anyone been able to get the "Notify Me" feature to work in the Find Friends app? I believe I've made all the appropriate adjustments in Settings as well as the app itself. However, when the friend arrives at the destination I selected, the app does nothing other than unselect the "Notify Me" button. No alerts or notifications appear anywhere.
Greetings Nestor Holynskyj,
I understand that the Find My Friends notifications are not working the way you would expect. In this situation, I would first recommend reading over the attached article to verify Find My Friends is set up correctly. You mentioned that you have already worked through the settings, so if everything mentioned in the article is already correct on your devices, please let me know.
Find My Friends: Frequently asked questions - Apple Support
Cheers,
Joe
Joe:
Thanks for the reply but please understand that the article doesn't address my question at all (nor does it really provide any details on settings, etc.) For the record, here is what I've set up:
Am I supposed to have the Find Friends open all the time or is the notification also supposed to work in the background. I have tried both approaches and neither yields any kind of notification.
Hope this helps.
Hello Nestor Holynskyj,
Thank you for the extra information about your situation. Due to the nature of your issue you may find more information by using another one of Apple's support resources.
https://getsupport.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.action
Best regards,
Joe
I have an identical issue and have tried everything but nothing worked...
Things I tried:
1. Toggle bluetooth, WIFI on/off
2. Remove and readd friends
3. Login/out iCloud account
I am able to track my friends and my friends can see my location. Find my friends notification is enabled in notification center, however, the notification remains inactive.
Find my friends notifications suddenly start to work today without me doing anything...
I had just upgraded this morning and had high hopes when I saw your message later in the day. Sadly, I still have the same problem. I saw my friend change location but no notification ever came up. I had contacted Apple and spoke with a few folks but they couldn't figure it out. More to the point, none of them were even very familiar with the app or its functionality, so it was a learning experience all around. Eventually they seem to have lost interest because I never got the promised call back from them....
Nestor,
Was there any resolution found for this issue? I have been trying to find the proper solution for the 'Notify Me' functionality within Find My Friends and there does not seem to be any definitive solution.
Thank you.
Sadly, no....
This doesn't solve the Apple's Find Me issue, but Glympse third-party app is good for location sharing.
Thank you for the update.
Thank you--I'll check it out.
Notifications are not working in Find My Friends for me either. They used to work. I REALLY wish Apple would come out with a ios point release that focuses on bugs. There are SO many bugs these days.
Wow, over a year and no solid answer to this problem. I guess just to chime in, iPhone 6+ iOS 9.2. Have never in the time I've been using Find Friends ever gotten a notification. Not once, which is sad because outside that it seems to be a really good program.
Notify Me function in Find Friends app
