Ios 13 Find My Iphone Refresh Location
Here s what to do if you have ios 12 or earlier macos mojave or earlier or watchos 5 or earlier.
Ios 13 find my iphone refresh location. In the new ios 13 version of the app there seems to be no way to refresh the location unless you completely close and then reopen the app. Set up find my iphone on your devices. If you want friends and family to know where you are turn on share my location.
In the older version of find my iphone when you were looking at a particular device the devices locations would refresh in one of two ways first if you click the refresh button at the top right of the screen or second if you moved away from that screen and came back more than a minute later it would automatically refresh the location. In the new ios 13 version of the app there seems to be no way to refresh the location unless you completely close and then reopen the app. To see your device even when it s offline turn on find my network to have the location of your device sent to apple when the battery is low turn on send last location.
Meet the new find my app which is the new home for tracking things and people on your iphone. In the older version of find my iphone when you were looking at a particular device the devices locations would refresh in one of two ways first if you click the refresh button at the top right of the screen or second if you moved away from that screen and came back more than a minute later it would automatically refresh the location. How to refresh location with find my iphone in ios 13 and ipados.
Apple designed the find my app to automatically refresh the locations for both your people and devices every minute or so but if that s not working tap the name of the person or device. Tap find my device then turn on find my device. The find my app combines find my iphone and find my friends into a single app included in ios 13 ipados and macos catalina or later.
In the old find my apps you could swipe down on the screen to manually update the location info of a person or device. Nearby devices securely send the location of your missing device to icloud then you can see where it is in the find my app. That should open their card and refresh their location information.
In the new find my app and with a good signal the location beacons on.