Imessage location sharing not working

Me and my friend are trying to share out locations. We both have fully updated Iphone 6's. We had it shared for a long time then I stopped being able to see hers and eventually she stopped being able to see mine. It just says "Location not available" . Sometimes I still get what town she is in and it often flashes for a second and shows me the location but never for more than a split second. How can we both fix this? It happens on both our phones.

iPhone 6, iOS 8.4.1

Posted on Sep 11, 2015 4:26 PM

21 replies

Jan 19, 2017 5:30 AM in response to MMHult

This worked for me as well. Thanks for the post.

DBsDG

Level 1

0 points

Jan 11, 2016 2:18 PM in response to Celtics25

I'm having the same problem. I have a 5S, my boyfriend has a 6. We're both on ios 9.2. We've successfully shared locations for more than a year. Suddenly when looking for his location in text details his constantly says "Not Available". This started right after I lost my phone and we found it using Find iPhone from his Mac. We double checked all settings on both phones and they are correct but I still cannot see his location in Text Details. However I can see his location when I go to Find iPhone on my PC in iCloud or on my phone. (We are linked as family in iCloud).

WHY ARE LOCATIONS NOT SYNCED between Text Details and Find iPhone? APPLE, PLEASE FIX THIS !!

********** For others having this problem, please report if it works for you as well to find your "people" in Find iPhone even though you cannot see them in Text Details. ************

Jan 14, 2016 6:50 AM in response to Celtics25

I dont have any other devices that I can remove from iCloud to test this... I can report that it seems to be working again for the moment (not that I have any clue why its started again??) Fingers crossed its something Apple were aware of and have managed to fix.

Thanks for your reply to my post. 🙂

Oct 14, 2016 8:30 PM in response to Have you seen my baseball?

"I removed the previous phones from their iCloud device account under Settings, then toggled the Location Sharing off and on again. It has worked ever since."

Maybe I'm missing something, but aren't the computers supposed to figure these things out for us, and correct them?

Yet another example of poor software design and development. We should expect more from Apple.

Padaas1

Level 1

4 points

Jan 26, 2017 6:21 PM in response to andy.dickens

Same here. Specifically: Settings > iCloud >Share My Location > From (this device).

My other phone had a different (prior) phone selected in this area, and after selecting "This Phone" it worked fine. I then deleted the prior phones for good housekeeping.

MMHult

Level 1

5 points

Dec 1, 2015 6:11 AM in response to Celtics25

I had this same problem. I turned off both my iPad and iPhone. Rebooted iPhone; turned off location sharing - rebooted again. Turned it on and turned on location sharing and it was working again.

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