Find my friends temporary sharing issue?

Hi All,
I am having trouble with temporary sharing in the Find My Friends app. I can no longer create an event for longer than 24 hours. Is this something new?

I'm having the same problem - Version 7.1. If I select more than 24 hours sharing, it changes the amount of time back to 24 hours. It's frustrating because the app is clearly designed to allow for sharing of more than 24 hours, and, when I'm on a work trip, I would love to share my location for the duration of the trip with my colleagues.

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Find my friends temporary event

This support article talks about limits for temporary events but I cannot figure out how to setup a temporary event in the find my friends app or even just temporary sharing with an individual, you used to be able to do it the old version of find my friends, did they remove this functionality?
I would also like to know how to stop sharing my location with an individual friend, do I just remove them from my friends list and my location is no longer shared with them? I can see the option to stop sharing my location, but that will stop it for everyone.
Find My Friends: Frequently asked questions - Apple Support

Nor can we create an event before we assign inviteess. These degradations impair our (at least my) experiences :-/

Find my Friends. Shared Apple ID. His and her iPhones.

My wife and I each have iPhones. We share an Apple ID. Can we use Find my friends if we share the same Apple ID?
thanks, eli

Just create another iCloud id. On the phone go to settings MAil,Contacts, Calendars. Then hit add account, icloud, get free apple id at the bottom. Then after you put in date of birth and location it will ask you to use an existing email or get a free @me.com one. I chose @me.com for my wife because I have her email listed under my main apple id so I didnt want to run into any problems. This is working great for me. Theres one step that asks you what to sync to icloud i turned it all off cause we are sharing one icloud id for find my iphone and photostream. Its working well!

Find My Friends - Apple ID issue... Help

Hi,
I've been using Find My Friends on my @me.com account. But since I've changed all my devices from @me.com accounts to @icloud.com accounts it doesn't work.
It says at the bottom of the Find My Friends app,
Signed in as ******@icloud.com
but the
"Send As" field say ********@me.com
When I click on the Send As it says 'Account' *********@icloud.com
I can't add any friends to Find My Friends it says 'Unavailable due to a sever error' nor can I add anyone who sends a request.
I think the problem is the ********@me.com under account section, it needs to be ********@icloud.com but I can't change it.
I've tried uninstalling it and re-installing it but with no joy.
Anyone else come across this issue?

http://appleid.apple.com
you have to edit your appleID to reflect an actual email address.

Find My Friends on iPhone 4s gives constant push notification message

I replaced my iPhone 4 with an iPhone 4s last night. I was using Find My Friends on both my iPhone 4 and my iPad before I changed phones. After the phone update, the app still works fine on the iPad. But when I log into the FMF app on the iPhone 4s I get the following message over and over.
Connect to iTunes to Use
Push Notifications
"Find Friends" notifications may
include alerts, sounds and icon
badges.
There is an OK button at the bottom of the message. When I press it, the message goes away for no more than two seconds and then comes back. Over and over and over.
I have deleted the app and reinstalled it several times and I've turned notifications on and off several times. I connected to iTUnes like it said, but I can't see anything that I need to do to turn on Push notifications.
Anybody else seeing this?
Joe
BTW, if it matters, none of my iOS devices are jailbroken. The old phone was (completely legally) running the iOS5 GM from the developer program.

After further research and testing, it is clear this is not an issue with FInd My Friends. The issue is with the loss of Push Notifications. It is happening in other apps as well. There are lots of threads on the Push Notification issue. None of them have any solution except to reinstall iOS5.
Drag.

HT204407 my 2 daughters and I are sharing one icloud. I am trying to set up and use find my friends with them, but it won't let me. It says I can't send a request to myself when I send one to her email address, which is different than mine. What am I d

my two daughters and I have iphones. I am trying to set up and use find my friends with them. We have 1 icloud, but different emails. When I send a request it states that I can't send a request to myself. What am I doing wrong

Sharing an Apple ID is never recommended for these reasons.
They can create their own: http://appleid.apple.com and you can add them at the addresses they use for their ID.
Sharing an Apple ID is not recommended because all of your data gets merged and when it gets deleted from one device, it deletes from them all, such as Contacts.
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HT201412 My i Pad 3 shows "cannot Access Find My Friends open the app and review your sign in information to continue sharing your location. And I have two buttons : Later and Open but they don't work, As long as I have this situation I can do nothing on

My i Pad 3 shows "cannot Access Find My Friends open the app and review your sign in information to continue sharing your location. And I have two buttons : Later and Open but they don't work. As long as I have this screen situation, I cann't do anything on my I Pad. Please help !!

I have the same problem on my iPhone4. It is obviously a bug in the software. Once it pops out I am locked out of my phone. I can't even begin to describe the frustration this causes. All that stuff about holding down the buttons is useless. the phone won't even shut off. I can take a screen shot like that or go to voice control. Even when I got to a wifi connection, I can't get on. This app blocks everything else. This is a serious bug and can have serious consequences. The only thing my phone would do is go to voice control and let me play iTunes or phone people. Some smart phone hey?
I have finally got to a place with a wide enough wifi to connect my computer and restore the phone. This has lasted over a day!
I don't even know why Find My Friends is on my phone. Is it part of the package and how do I turn it off?

HT5622 My ipad hangs up after showing a message that says it "Cannot Access Find My Friends" and that I need to open the app and review my signin info to continue sharing. I can't go there because it is hung up. I also can't power off.

My ipad hangs up after showing a message that says it "Cannot Access Find My Friends" and that I need to open the app and review my signin info to continue sharing. I can't go there because it is hung up. I also can't power off.

Perform a Reset...
Reset ( No Data will be Lost )
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears. Release the Buttons.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430

Why my location is not shared with friends on Find My Friends?

I'm not able to share my location with friends. 'Share My Location' option is disabled and I couldn't enable it. Sometimes it is getting enabled automatically and after sometime it is disabled. However my location is never shared with friends. My friends are receiving a messages 'Location is not available'. Location sharing is enabled in settings>privacy>location services>find my friends and also in iCloud>Advanced>Share My Location>. It also displays the name of the friends currently my location is being shared. But my friends aren't able to see my location. What do I do?

You probably using a Wi-Fi iPad without GPS.

Find My Friends stuck not sharing my location

After updating from iphone 5s on IOS 7 to iphone 6 on IOS 8, Find My Friends is stuck not sharing my location.
I can see others
I can see MY location
"ME" at the bottom shows "Location Services Off"
Location Services ARE on
I CAN share my location in an iMessage
Clicking "me" in FMF shows the "Share my location" slider as enabled, but grayed out so I cannot change it.
Caveat: I think I did have my location disabled before upgrading.

On iOS 8.1:
-Settings > Privacy > Location Services >
      ‘Location Services’ set to ‘ON’
-Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Share My Location >
      ‘Share My Location’ set to ‘ON’
      ‘From’ set to ‘This Device’
-Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services >
      ‘Share My Location’ set to ‘ON’

My iPhone 5S location services are on, sharing is on, but, in find my friends it shows location services off

i have 1 friend working great, but cannot add another, following me, because they cannot find my location. I checked the help guide ... Everything checks, but i cannot change my location settings because it is grayed out, but it is on.
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Level 1(0 points)creigd2kJan 19, 2015 3:30 PM Re: My iPhone 5S location services are on, sharing is on, but, in find my friends it shows location services off
Re: My iPhone 5S location services are on, sharing is on, but, in find my friends it shows location services offin response to creigd2k
Also, in privacy>location services>share my location (just below it) is grayed out, yet at the bottom of page>system services>share my location is accessible, but off, and every time I turn it on it turns back off in a second, or 2Edit
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Find my friends missing temporary events

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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.
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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.

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