How To Share Location On iPhone — 3 Methods

So you want to share your location on your iPhone, then this post is the one for you. Lets jump into ‘How To Share Location On iPhone’

Before we start, I also wrote this post on my website in case you prefer reading over there.

Introduction

The location settings provided by Apple are very extensive, with numerous ways of sharing your location. Whether it’s for a single instance, on your way to a destination or continuous, Apple allows you to do them all.

On top of this, they offer a super simple interface to these powerful tools. Something that users have come to expect from Apple, with the ‘Apple Ecosystem’ at it’s strongest.

3 Methods — Explained

There are a total of 3 separate ways to share your location on your iPhone. These are listed below with a short explanation of what they offer:

Share Once

In iMessages or Maps, you can simply share a single point in time view of where you are right now. An example of where this has come in really handy for me: I was trying to find a friend so that we could have a catch-up, but the area was new for us both and we weren’t sure where either one was. So my friend shared his location with me using this method, and we were…