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Apple's Find My Friends app goes live

By | October 12, 2011, 6:38am PDT

Summary: iOS 5 devices only need apply.

Apple’s Find My Friends app for iOS 5 devices has gone live.

Here’s a link to the App Store.

Here’s the blurb:

Find My Friends allows you to easily location your friends and family from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Install this free app on your iOS 5 device and sign in with the Apple ID you use with iCloud. Adding a friend is easy - just send a request to see their location. Once your friend accepts using the Find My Friends app, you will then be able to see that friend’s location on a map. You can also choose to share your location for a limited period of time with a group of friends. Use Find My Friends to keep track of your traveling companions when you’re on a vacation. Or to see if the kids are home from school. Or to find the friends you’re meeting for dinner.

You will need an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running iOS 5 to make use of this.

Here are some pics:

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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology -- whether that be by learning to program, building a PC from a pile of parts, or helping them get the most from their new MP3 player or digital camera.

Adrian has authored/co-authored technical books on a variety of topics, ranging from programming to building and maintaining PCs. His most recent books include "Build the Ultimate Custom PC", "Beginning Programming" and "The PC Doctor's Fix It Yourself Guide". He has also written training manuals that have been used by a number of Fortune 500 companies.

Adrian also runs a popular blog under the name The PC Doctor, where he covers a range of computer-related topics -- from security to repairing and upgrading.

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RE: Apple's Find My Friends app goes live
non-biased 17th Oct
@daengbo I have people in my circle that don't have iOS devices but only care about those that do wink
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RE: Apple's Find My Friends app goes live
Rama.NET Updated - 12th Oct
Is it integrated within the platform like Windows Phone 7 does? I don't think so, but I hold my opinion until I load iOS5 on my phone or see my iPhone 4S in hands.
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RE: Apple's Find My Friends app goes live
Cylon Centurion 12th Oct
Whatever happened to calling up your buddies and asking "Yo, dawg! What's your 20?"
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RE: Apple's Find My Friends app goes live
non-biased 17th Oct
@Cylon Centurion Not sure, I would just call but you would have never caught me saying that phrase happy
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RE: Apple's Find My Friends app goes live
iHateAssHats! 12th Oct
Typical Apple UI... Looks awful!

Brought to you by Toy Story Woody with his box of Crayola crayons.
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Oh, that's just awful.
matthew_maurice 12th Oct
Talk about "UI effects for the sake of UI effects!" Simulated leather, with stitching?
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RE: Apple's Find My Friends app goes live
KyleLife360 12th Oct
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
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RE: Apple's Find My Friends app goes live
non-biased 17th Oct
@KyleLife360 To each their own. While I have nothing to hide from my wife I certainly wouldn't want her to be tracking me.

Actually, I can think of a couple of times I wanted to hide where I was but not for the wrong reasons. Makes it difficult to shop for a present when she is texting or calling to find out why you are at the jewelry store sad
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"Only find my hip friends" app goes live
daengbo 13th Oct
Doesn't seem that useful unless you move in circles where everyone uses iOS5.
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RE: Apple's Find My Friends app goes live
non-biased 17th Oct
@daengbo I have people in my circle that don't have iOS devices but only care about those that do wink

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