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iOS 27: Find My App Lets You Hide Location From Others Temporarily

Apple's first iOS 27 developer beta, released on Monday, includes a new feature in the Find My app that lets you temporarily hide your location from select people.

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A new "Hide Location" option appears in the user's Find My card in the People section, under "My Location." Tapping it hides your location temporarily for 12 hours before reverting to your previous shared location state. When enabled, the option switches to "Unhide Location."

As it currently works, enabling the feature doesn't appear to notify the person that you are hiding your location from them – your Find My card simply registers "No Location Found" on their device.


Apple intends to make a public beta of iOS 27 available next month, with a general release expected in September.

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Top Rated Comments

Johnny Steps Avatar
3 weeks ago

Cheating loophole? Now that's privacy 🤭
If someone is tracking their partner because they already do not trust them, then the problem begins way before this feature was introduced.
Score: 22 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Will Co Avatar
3 weeks ago
Tons of genuine and non-creepy good uses for this. Yes, plenty of bad ones too. It's a tool. Use it as you will.
Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
3 weeks ago
Cheating loophole? Now that's privacy 🤭
Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)
3 weeks ago

As someone who has been cheated on before - this can be seen as a massive red flag feature. But in reality - if your loved ones location needs to be tracked so much - there’s a bigger red flag in the relationship than Find My.
It can aslo be that someone is planning a surprise for someone?
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
-BigMac- Avatar
3 weeks ago
As someone who has been cheated on before - this can be seen as a massive red flag feature. But in reality - if your loved ones location needs to be tracked so much - there’s a bigger red flag in the relationship than Find My.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
longofest Avatar
3 weeks ago
There are a lot of legitimate uses for this. A relationship that begins as loving with mutual shared locations and turns abusive and now one wants to escape it, it could be dangerous currently for the one to turn off their location sharing since it notifies the other. This is much more clandestine.

It can obviously be used for less "moral" reasons, but I mean seriously guys? Are we going to be the morality police? If it has some legit use cases and the potential of abuse isn't so bad that its fueling a criminal underworld I'm all for it.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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