Change account in iOS 8 Find my Friends?

It seams that under iOS 8, Find my Friends is now lock into using my iCloud login?
In the past I was able to use a separate Apple ID for Find my Friends.
Am I missing where the logout is so that I can change back to the Apple ID all my friends are following?

I agree that this is a real step back and a bit of a pain. My wife and I have always shared an iCloud account and have been able to separate our iMessage and Facetime and Find Friends accounts but keep everything else together.
I understand that we are supposed to be using family sharing, and for the most part it looks like it would work, except for the photos.
I have upgraded to iCloud photos and was really looking forward to having just one wall of photos that my wife and I can share and manage an keep everything on all of our devices.
If I understand how family sharing works with photos, we now have a separate 'family' stream and we have to copy pictures from our own (now separated) iCloud photo accounts and copy them into the family's stream to be able to see each other's photos.
I don't think I want to do that, so does this mean we have to give up on find friends?
I just read something that makes this a dealbreaker. With the family sharing, you cannot share an iTunes match account. So, looks like we will not be using family sharing and will just have to live without find friends.
One workaround is to use 'find my phone'. If I need to know where my wife is, I can just look up where her phone is.

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Is there anyway to:
1) use a different AppleID to sign into different devices for the 'Find My Friends' app using iOS8? It appears that any device using the same iCloud account must also use the same AppleID for "Find My Friends" now. I just got off the phone with Apple Care. It's my 4th call to them (or return call from them) in the last 4 days totally over 4 hours. Their conclusion is no and I just need to separate each device onto a separate AppleID for iCloud & Find My Friends. When I ask them how all our devices used by 3 family members would then share contacts, calendars, notes, etc the response was nobody else does that. So if I can't do that is there a way to:
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Welcome to the Support Communities!
I would suggest deleting the app from your iPhone and redownloading it:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
Cheers,
- Judy

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Hello,
All of a sudden my wife and I can't send/receive invitations with Find My Friends App. Worked forever till recently. If I send the request from my phone her name will show up in the list as invited for 20 seconds then disappear. If I send the invite from her phone, I can only type in my email address that is my iCloud, but it stays grey and doesn't turn orange as valid. I have verified iCloud is working on her phone, I can manually do an iCloud backup, her Find my iPhone app works... but also on her phone...in her Contacts for her contact...I've added a photo...and when I log into Find My Friends, at the bottom of the screen where it shows "Me" it doesn't show the photo. Odd.... it's an iPhone 5, and on 7.1 Oh and location services are working on the phone too.
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It sounds like your Find my Friends invitations are not working correctly. I would use the troubleshooting from the following article to help resolve this issue:
iCloud: Troubleshooting Find My Friends
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4008
Make sure that you have the latest version of the Find My Friends app installed on your iOS device. If the app is up to date, try the steps for troubleshooting apps purchased from the App Store.
Make sure there aren't any current issues listed in System Status affecting Find My Friends.
Make sure the issue you're seeing isn't already covered in the Help menu. Find My Friends Help is available within the Find My Friends app.
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On an iPhone or iPod touch, tap Me, then tap Help.
On an iPad, tap the List button, tap Me, tap Info, then tap Help.
Find My Friends 2.1.1 or earlier: Tap the Me tab, tap Account, then tap Find My Friends Help.
Quit and restart the Find My Friends app on your iOS device. Wait a minute before reopening the Find My Friends app.
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All the very best,
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I've tried accessing the mail through a mail application using the correct server information, and trying both the old 6 character password and the one I had to change it too after they updated the security guidelines - neither work.
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