Find My Friends iOS 8

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:
2) Share contact, calendar, notes and other data between separate iCloud accounts? If I can't use a different AppleID for Find My Friends can I merge two AppleID's and share data like the new iTunes allows family sharing? The Apple Techs seem to think no. Based on my testing it is also no.
The way Find My Friends is designed for iOS 8 (versus all previous versions) where the iCloud account determines the Find My Friends ID, defeated the ability of all but one member of my family to allow friends to actually find them and it requires all of us to share the location of all friends.
There has got to be a better way than trying to get Apple to change the app back to the iOS 7 version?

Just upgraded to an iPhone 6 and was hoping that might resolve the issue by default but unfortunately I'm getting the same error message as above. Anyone got any ideas? My wife thinks I'm deliberately blocking my whereabouts

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This is a user to user community, Apple are unlikely to read your comments, if you have any suggestions that you think might enhance iCloud you can send Apple your feedback here.

Find my friends app not working

I am unable to add or receive followers. It has been working fine for ages then one of my contacts said they couldn't see me anymore. They have sentence numerous requests but it hasn't come through to me (nor has it the other way round) and now another contact can't see me. Anyone else have this issue and resolved it?

Hey kw05,
Thanks for the question. The following resource may provide a solution:
iCloud: Troubleshooting Find My Friends
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4008
Issues with location requests
You are not receiving requests from others to follow your location
If you're certain someone has sent you a location request using Find My Friends, and you do not receive the notification:
- Make sure that you're signed in to the Find My Friends iOS app with the Apple ID your friend is trying to follow. If that was not the case, check the inbox of the email address your friend used, and see if there is any location request email from your friend. If so, tap View Request in that message to accept or decline their request in Find My Friends.
- Make sure that the option to Allow Friend Requests is turned on:
          - Find My Friends 3.0 or later:
          - On an iPhone or iPod touch, tap Me, then check Allow Friend Requests under Invitations
          - On an iPad, tap the List button, tap Me, tap Info, then check Allow Friend Requests.
          - Find My Friends 2.1.1 or earlier: Tap the Me tab, tap Account, then check Allow Friend Requests under Notifications.
- Make sure that you're within the limits to accept follow requests. If you have reached a limit, you may not be able to accept more friends until you remove one.
Your requests to follow others are not received
- Make sure that you're sending your request to the Apple ID your friend is using to sign in to the Find My Friends iOS app.
- Make sure that you're within the limits to send follow requests to others. If you have reached a limit, you may not be able to send a location request to more friends until you remove one.
Note: If you accept a request from a friend that you’re not following, a follow request is sent to your friend automatically (Find My Friends 3.0 or later).
Thanks,
Matt M.

Find my Friends will not work on my iPhone 4S / iOS 8.2

Im having iPhone 4S on iOS 8.2 (12D508) (unfortunately).
When I want to open my Find my friends app, im getting the message "Sign into your iCloud And then Go to iCloud settings) but when I click that and actually go on iCloud settings I can pretty much see i am logged into my iCloud.
I can also see that in advanced settings, where Share my location option is on, im getting pop up alert saying "Share My Location Unavailable. Unable to connect to server. Please try again"
How to get my Find my Friends app working, for gods sake?!?

Start here: WiFi Greyed Out
If nothing in that knowledge base article helps your WiFi chip has probably failed.

In iOS 8, how can I share my photo stream AND assign different names to each of our devices in Find My Friends?

I'm using the iPhone 5c, and iPad mini, and my wife has a 5c, too. We used to use my iCloud account as the main account on everything, so we could share our photos as we took them. But now in iOS 8, Find My Friends is moved to iCloud. I can't add my wife to Find My Friends, because it lists me on all of the devices. How can I go back to taking a photo and it showing up on her device while allowing us to find each other?

I chatted with Apple tech support. They said [add rolling eyes here] that this is easily solved with the new Family Sharing feature. In other words, I sign in on my phone, my wife signs in on hers, and we share our photos in the Family folder. Of course, no photos are automatically shared in the Family folder. It's just a shared folder, something anybody could have created in iOS 7. I would still have to drag all of my photos and my wife would have to drag all of her photos to the folder in order to share them. Also, I notice that app updates on her phone are strangely being downloaded under her account, so when we make a change, it says the downloaded app will have to be deleted, because it was not downloaded through my account. This Family Sharing thing is a joke. I told the tech support lady that this didn't feel like much of a "feature" at all. She suggested that I provide feedback if I didn't like it, which I did.
So there is no way to do what I'm wanting to do under iOS 8 at the moment. I love Apple products, but wow, iCloud is a disaster at the moment. Just look at all of the people who upgraded to iOS 8 and upgraded to iCloud Drive without understanding the implications. Now they're getting an error message that they need to download Yosemite in order to access their documents, even though Yosemite isn't available to the public yet. Not well planned. In the meantime, we just don't share our photos in exchange for finding each other for lunch.

Can't download Find My Friends on devices running iOS 6 or 7

I can no longer download Find My Friends on my kids iPhone 4(iOS 7) and 3gs(iOS 6) as the app store now says it is only for iOS 8 and up.
I used to have one main iCloud account that I used on all my families devices to easily track them. We have had 3 iPhones stolen so it was an issue to be able to locate them quickly and easily. Now that I have set up a family, the main iCloud account on each device is now the individual family members iCloud account. I figured Find My Friends would do for tracking lost and stolen devices, but I can not download the app onto the iPhone 4 and 3gs.
Am I missing something? I have Find My iPhone turned on both devices. The family member shows up in my list of family members on my iPhone 4s running iOS 8 in Find My Friends, but their location is not available. So I am assuming I have to share their location from Find My Friends on their device. I have not tried logging in as them from my device and sharing their location then logging back into my account, but quite frankly I don't have the time to mess with it. Which is why I have an iPhone in the first place...
Thanks for your help in advance.

I have the same issue. I restored an iPhone 4 for my 16 year old niece. Only stipulation was she use Find My Friends. While I was getting the apps for the phone I was unable to download one of the most important features. It would be great if they allowed 2 versions or incorporated support for iOS 7.1.2. I'm sure I'm not the only one who decided to give up the $200 trade in offers to keep a perfectly good phone (looks new still from case use) in the family.

Where can I get a copy of "Find My Friends" to load on a iPhone 4 that can only run iOS 7.0.2?

The App "Find My Friends" in the app store is ver 4.0.1 which requires iOS 8.0.1.
I wish to load onto an iPhone 4 that can only run iOS 7.1.2
Where can I find a copy of "Find My Friends" ver 3 ?

I believe I have found the answer myself ... but it might help other people with this and similar Apps.
Apple has a work around for older devices.
Download the latest app to your computer with iTunes.
Then log into the store with your device and select purchased.
Find the app(s) for iOS7 you downloaded to iTunes and then select install. If an older version (i.e. iOS6) is available it will download.
Cheers!

I can't see my child's iphone 5 (running iOS 8) in find a friend when not connected to wifi?

I can't see my child's iphone 5 (running iOS 8) in find a friend when it's not connected to wifi?
please help.

Hi Wingnut01977,
If you are having issues with Find My Friends in certain situations, you may find the following article helpful:
iCloud: Troubleshooting Find My Friends
Regards,
- Brenden

Find My Friends Not Working Properly after iOS 7 Update

Following update to iOS7, the Find My Friends app doesn't seem to work properly anymore. In particular, when the app is on, or running in the background (i.e. you can see it when you double tap the home button) everything is fine and my friends can see my location. When the app is killed, i.e. off or not running in the background, then my friends cannot see where I am.
That was not the case with the old iOS where regardless of the app running in background or not, my friends could still see my location. Has this happened to anyone? Does anyone have a solution?
Thank you!

Appreciate that, but it's not as useful now. Many users have the same issue, also see
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23105624#23105624

HT201493 Find my friends stopped working right after recent iOS update, anyone have a fix?

Find my friends stopped working right after recent iOS update, anyone know of a fix for this?

Appreciate that, but it's not as useful now. Many users have the same issue, also see
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23105624#23105624

HT204407 I updated to the latest IOS (5.1.1) today and since then Find my friends hang at "signing in" hangs during signing in. I can't back up & start over, every time I open the app, it's hanging there. Can I clear this without losing everything?

I updated to the latest IOS (5.1.1) today and since then Find my friends hang at "signing in" hangs during signing in. I can't back up & start over, every time I open the app, it's hanging there. Can I clear this without losing everything, including the friends that have already accepted me?

The Basic Troubleshooting Steps are:
Restart... Reset... Restore from Backup... Restore as New...
Restart / Reset
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
Backing up, Updating and Restoring
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

HT201493 Will be "Find my Friends" automatically downloaded to my Iphone with the new IOS 6 release?

Will be "Find my Friends" automatically downloaded to my Iphone with the new IOS 6 release?

No. It's an app from the AppStore. Like all other apps from the AppStore you choose which ones to download.

Find my Friend for pre iOS 8

Hi I have a iphone 4s that will not update to iOS 8.
Had to do a factory reset and now cannot download find my friends.
How can I download version 3.o for my iPhone
Thanks

How did you resolve? Because all my settings are correct and I still don't get the notifications

HT204407 Find my Friends doesn't work after IOS 7 update

We use find my friends for our entire family to monitor kids locations, etc. Since updating to IOS 7, one of the phones only shows it's location sporadically - otherwise says location not available.
Have verified location services are turned on, nothing is blocked, etc.
This phone was updated to IOS 7 over wifi (vs. through iTunes) - one other phone had some minor (unrelated) issues after updating over wifi that were resolved by doing a factory reset & updating from iTunes - wondering if that could be cause of the issue here as well. Anyone else encountering issues with FMF?

Apple did update their help section on the app. I found this trying to figure out why my Find Friends wasn't working after the update to iOS 7.
"Find My Friends is turned on in Background App Refresh (in Settings > General in iOS 7). When Background App Refresh is turned off, Find My Friends can’t use Location Services in the background. If Background App Refresh is turned on, but you quit Find My Friends via the multitasking interface, location updates won’t be sent to your friends until you open the app again."
Hopefully Apple will update this as it was not this way prior to iOS 7. Killing the app didn't prevent your location from updating in iOS 6 as I constantly killed the apps running in the background and never had this problem till the update. Hope this helps! Just make sure to not kill the app as of now and to tell everyone you follow not to kill their app and locations will continue to refresh. Otherwise it won't update locations till the app is opened again.

Find my friends app works differently now with iOS 8. I delete messages and am constantly being asked to share location....no "always share" option....

In previous iOS I shared my location with "my friends" one time, permanently in the Find My Friends app. Now, I am being asked to share over and over--I delete messages in iMessage all the time. I want to share my location with my friends one time, permanently. Is this possible?

I seem to have a similar problem. I share my location with User-A via Find My Friends. I have a conversation with User-A via Messages. I delete the conversation with User-A in Messages. Suddenly, User-A no longer has permission to follow me via Find My Friends.
I prefer to keep my message history in Messages clean, but do not want to revoke other users' permissions to follow me in Find My Friends each time I delete Messages conversations.
Is this a bug or intended? Either way, is there a workaround or solution, other than having A) having to keep all message history or B) constantly remember to grant users permission to follow me in Find My Friends over and over again?

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