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Why has the location of a a friend changed to "is a Follower" on the Find my Friends app? This person has been a friend for a long time and I have been able to see location details until now. Want to know what has caused the location status to change. Thank you - K Montgomery
iPhone 6, iOS 9.3.2, Find My Friends App
Presumably your friend has chosen to stop sharing their location.
tt2
Presumably your friend has chosen to stop sharing their location.
tt2
Thank you for the response turingtest2, but I've checked with the friend (my daughter) and she hasn't made any changes in her settings or stopped sharing her location. If she had stopped sharing her location, it would say "Location Not Available", instead it says "Is A Follower". I can't find any reference to this status in any of the FMF Help info and she doesn't know what to do to correct it....
I cannot find anything in the documentation either, but I've just fired up FMF on my iPhone in forever and my two daughters show up as is a Follower too. If I tap on their names I can Ask to Follow which, one hopes, would do the job. I can't follow through with testing what happens as both have switched to Android. 😮
tt2
If I interpret this article correctly:
iCloud: Share your location with friends
Under Share your location - “is a Follower” appears on your device when you are sharing your location with the friend, but the friend is not sharing their location with you.
Under Stop sharing your location - "Location Not Available" appears below your name in Find My Friends on your followers’ devices, as if your device is turned off, in airplane mode, or just offline.
I would make sure (on your daughter's device) that she is still sharing her location with you. Or tap your daughter from your phone, and then tap Ask to Follow in FMF.
why has my friend's status now show as "is a follower"?
