It’s easy to find your friends and family with Find My Friends in iOS. Parents and co-workers alike will find this app very useful to coordinate meetings or just to keep track of their kids. Location sharing may be a scary thought for some, but Apple gives you a lot of control over who you can locate and who can locate you. It’s quick and easy to start or stop sharing your location, you can specify restrictions, and you can even set a time frame when it’s okay for your location to be shared with someone. For those worried about sending this sort of information to Apple — the location information is encrypted, it’s only kept on Apple servers for two hours, and then it’s permanently deleted.
Setting up this app is easy, so let’s take a look at how to use Find My Friends in iOS with some very simple steps to get you started.
Once you’ve located and opened the app, you may find some of your favorite contacts have already been added. If not, you can add users by following these steps:
Swipe left on a contact to favorite or delete them.
Tap a contact to Stop Sharing your location with them, or Remove them. You can also tap More in the upper right corner to get more information.
You can also manage a contact by going to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Share My Location, and tapping a contact. Select Stop Sharing My Location.
You can use 3D touch on the Find My Friends widget to find a favorite quickly. Use 3D Touch on a contact’s picture to send them an email, start a FaceTime video call, start a voice call, or message them, or 3D Touch on the name of the contact to quickly see their location.
You may want to use Find My Friends to locate your children. This is a great tool for parents, but it can be dangerous for minors to allow others to find them using this app. To disable this follow these steps:
Once you have it set up, all you have to do is open the app and tap the person that you want to locate. You can even share your location with someone right from the messages app by tapping the “i” in the upper right corner.
Merely days after the iPhone Duo hit the shelves, images of broken screens on the phone started popping up across social media. Until now, it’s been unclear what’s causing the line of defective pixels that appears vertically along the crease, as well as horizontally, on the phone’s inner display.
Apple has finally acknowledged the issue, which has shown up on iPhone Duo units owned by customers as well as demo units in stores. In a statement shared with Bloomberg, Apple says that not all iPhone Duo units are affected and that those that are tend to show the display fault early on. The company added that users who experience problems with their iPhone Duo display should contact AppleCare for a replacement.
Not long ago, Apple treated independent repair like an act of outright hostility. The Cupertino giant locked down parts with serial-number pairing, while repair tools remained firmly out of reach of anyone outside its authorized repair network. More importantly, the company waged a legal and lobbying battle against right-to-repair legislation.
I've covered enough of these fights over the years to know what a shift looks like. That's why what happened in October 2026 genuinely caught me off guard. The day the iPhone Duo went on sale, what may be the most mechanically complex iPhone to date, Apple pulled off a surprising about-face. It published teardown-style repair manuals for a handful of major components.
Apple's first foldable phone is now on shelves, in short supply, but with an unreal amount of buzz around it. After all, it's the first foldable iPhone, and there's plenty that this phone gets right. But there's also a lot that is either broken or underwhelming. What's peculiar is the dialogue around this phone, and how it has completely overshadowed every other attempt at making a phone with a similar form factor.
I've spent some time with the iPhone Duo, and I've used the Galaxy Z Fold 8 for almost three months now. In my opinion, Samsung deserves more credit. When the Galaxy Z Fold 8 arrived earlier this year, it was celebrated in some circles and ridiculed in others for supposedly copying what Apple would eventually deliver with the iPhone Duo. The dialogue was pretty odd, for multiple reasons. Samsung has been making foldable phones for years, so claiming that it copied a product Apple hadn't even launched was simply absurd.