Hands on with updated Find My Friends and Find My iPhone

20.09.2012

Geofencing isn't entirely one-sided: You can see when your friend has put a notification on you, though you can't remove them. Head to the Me tab to see if you've been geofenced; if you have, the outline of the Location Services arrow appears next to their name. You can tap their name to see what they're tracking, though there appears to be no way to get rid of the geofence currently without removing them as a follower altogether. (You can hide your location from followers temporarily by enabling the switch in the Me tab, but that doesn't wipe out the geofence--only ignores it while you're hidden.)

As always, while these features are nifty for those you trust with your location, you might not want to let every person you met at a conference have permanent access; for those, we recommend using the app's Temporary Event feature, which lets you set geofences and track location for a limited amount of time.

Find My Friends's last new perk in this update is Friend Suggestions; now, when you tap the Add Friends button, a pop-up window will hover below the To field with the email addresses of iCloud contacts you haven't added to Find My Friends. (On the iPhone, it's a separate Friend Suggestions button.)

These days, losing a device is almost as traumatic as losing your wallet. Thankfully, Find My iPhone exists to ease your panic and help you find your poor missing devices. You enable the feature itself on your devices via the Settings app; the Find My iPhone app is here to help you track any of those devices that you've lost. (If you only have one iOS device and you've lost it, you can head to .