Apple's Find My Friends app now available

In advance of iOS 5, Apple has released Find My Friends, a location sharing app similar to Glympse. As the name implies, Find My Friends will let you locate your friends on a map. It'll also let you share your location so your friends can find you.

For those concerned about privacy, the location sharing feature can be turned on permanently or only temporarily which is great for when you want your friends to meet you while you're eating dinner at a local restaurant, but not when you go home. It's also conveniently integrated with the built-in contact and map applications so you can find your friends and generate a route to meet up with them.

You can install Find My Friends by visiting iCloud.com on an iPhone running iOS 5. You can also download it from the App Store.

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Life360

Full disclosure: I am the Community Manager for Life360

Think about the daily micro-communications you have with friends and family everyday like "Are you on your way?" or "Where are you at now?" When people use Life360's family safety app on Android in particular, we're seeing constant location check-ins between parents and kids and husbands and wives. As iPhone owners explore everything that iOS5 offers, it will be interesting to see how they use the Find My Friends app.

-Kyle

October 12 2011 at 7:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jon

Just tried this out with my iPhone and a co-worker's iPad. Worked pretty good. I'd say better than Glymps. Though I'd say Glymps still has a slight advantage because anyone with a computer can watch my location.

October 12 2011 at 11:43 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Michael Rygaard

funny you cant find it if you search for "find my friends" (atleast not in Denmark)

October 12 2011 at 11:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply