There are also parental controls in the Settings application to help you monitor how your children use “Find My Friends.” You can set the preferences you want and then use your own password so that changes cannot be made. If you tap on one of the dots, you can choose to message that friend or create a route to their location via your phone’s Maps app. Once a request has been accepted, you can see your friends on the map under the “friends” tab.

If you’re looking to add more friends, you can hit the “Friend Suggestions” button and it will pull contacts from your phone. Once a request is sent, your friend or child must go into their app and accept the request. You can then start requesting to add friends from your phone contacts list. Good news, it’s free! Once the app is installed, you will have to sign in with your iCloud username. To get started, simply install the app from the App Store. One iPhone app that we at All Pro Dad think could be extremely useful in parenting teenagers is “Find My Friends.” Find My Friends is an iOS application that uses the device’s GPS capabilities to “find” other friends who use the app. The improvements to Apple’s hardware and software of the iPhone have been tremendous in such a short time and a majority of cell users today have iPhones.

Apple’s iPhone release in 2007 dramatically changed the game for what is possible with a cellular phone. I remember having a Nokia phone with the “snake” game and I thought that was riveting. The rapid growth of cellular phone technology in the last 10 years is simply astounding.

How to use find my friends