{"id":9472,"date":"2026-07-03T15:05:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=11660"},"modified":"2026-07-03T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:12:39","slug":"share-your-location-temporarily-while-traveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/share-your-location-temporarily-while-traveling\/","title":{"rendered":"Share Your Location Temporarily While Traveling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you\u2019re flying, driving, or biking to visit an iPhone-using friend or relative, try sharing your location temporarily so they can check in on your progress without constant \u201cwhere are you now?\u201d texts. In iOS 17 and later, open a Messages conversation with that person, tap the \u2295 button to the left of the message entry field, and tap Location. In the location-sharing control that appears, tap the Share button, then choose Until End of Day or For One Hour. You can also tap the Request button to ask the recipient to share their location with you. If you pick Indefinitely for the sharing duration and later wish to revoke it, open the Find My app, tap the People list, select the person, and tap Stop Sharing My Location.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/share-your-location-temporarily-while-traveling-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image generated by Adam Engst with ChatGPT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you\u2019re flying, driving, or biking to visit an iPhone-using friend or relative, try sharing your location temporarily so they can check in on your progress without constant \u201cwhere are you now?\u201d texts. In iOS 17 and later, open a Messages conversation with that person, tap the \u2295 button to the left of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,8,112,185,3392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-iphone","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9483,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472\/revisions\/9483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}