HT204407 Find my friends server error

When trying to add one of me friends it came up with server error !! Any help

I ended up being able to solve it. It turned out the e-mail address associated with the account was not set up correctly.
I found out by accident when I tried to get Find My Friends to work on an older device with iOS 6. When I installed Find My Friends on that device, the App Store said the latest version required iOS 7 but I could load the previous version of Find My Friends.
This older version turned out to be much more helpful: instead of the server error, it told me exactly what the problem was. I just selected the correct e-mail address (which was the only one in the list, but not actually active) and everything worked correctly from then on.

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Find my friends server error

Hello,
I have a Iphone 5 32gb with IOS 8 that is why i am here. Also i have a Ipad 2 32gb, iMac 21 last 2012 and a Macbook pro 13 mid 2013, so i use iCloud and all the service a lot.
I have to apple id, i created the first one in 2009, and later i buy some services of me.com, so i create a me.com account too.
I upgrded to IOS 8 yesterday, all is right, but when i was to configure find my friend, i saw that you only can login with the iCloud account and no other account like before. I try to migrate from the other to the iCloud account, but say that i did't have any friend in the other account (that is not true, i had my brother). So i was to add my brother to the iCloud account and it is imposible and also if my brother want to add me i can't accept the request. The app send me a menage that say " Find my friends alert, Find my friends not available due to a server error" I try to unistal the app and reinstall it, and the error persists. But here is the rare thing, when i request by imenssage that I want to see his position it is all right, but when he request to me and i accept, this don't work.
Can any help me to understand what is happening?
and when can we merge two apple id account? this would solve a lot of problem!!!
Than for all!!!

I have a solution for the problem. Yes it is because we have our main email without verification. I went to apple support, i clicked in iCloud, then go to contact with technical support. There you go to Introduction, then go to account and configuration, then go to iCloud account solution problems and contact by phone to apple care. there you say your problem with the main email verification. They ask you to change the email, they send you a change pass email, you change he it and you got the email verification. And now you can use find my friend with no problems. PROBLEM SOLVE!

Find My Friends - Server Error when logging in

I have been using Find My Friends on my iPad4 and iPhone5 for about a month but now I am getting either an error suggesting my Apple ID password is wrong, which it isn't or I wouldn't get to post on here - plus I have checked via appleid web portal.
Currently it says "Find My Friends Alert - Find My Friends is unavailable due to a server error."
However, my friends are logged into their iPads and iPhones using the service without a problem.
Any ideas?

Solving Find my Friends Alert "Find my Friends is unavailable due to a server error, is actually caused by how you have logged onto Apple - I have found.
This seems to be a common thread that stems from before Apple introduced email. At that time I first created an Apple identity for the 3GS, it was using the email address I already had. On subsequent iPhone hardware and software upgrades that introduced Apple based email, like @me.com and latterly iCloud, logging onto an updated software version you are invited to use the Apple based identities which you invariably do. This can be a mistake as original Apps are linked to the core identity based on the original one that first set up, and unless this is used then some Apps like Find Friends give misleading error messages like Cannot find Server, or Server error, when the problem is how you have logged on.
Merging those multiple identities would be a solution, but one that I haven't yet found.

HT204407 Find my friends shows completely wrong adress every time I go to a specific place

Every time the phone goes to a certain adress it actuall shows it at an adress 2.4 hours away, every time but never has any other problem. Phone will be in a spot in eustis florida and the find my friends app always says it's on homer road in Jacksonville Florida which is almost 3 hours away.

Find my Friends uses Apples own map data. The same data as the Apple Maps app uses.

HT204407 Find My Friends keeps crashing on startup - tried closing, resetting phone- everything but deleting. Suggestions?

Find My Friends keeps crashing on startup. I've tried closing, the double click on the Home & closing, restarting phone & restating phone. Can't log on to get to settings to troubleshoot. Any suggestions besides Delete? I've got 5 that I follow, and don't want to bother them with re-accepting to follow.

I had the same issue. I deleted the app and reinstalled. It solved the crashing and all my existing friends were still connected to my account (I did not have to re-invite them).

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.

HT204407 Find my friends notify me has not worked since the ios7 update. Help

Ever since the update to ios7y find my friends app never notifies me when one of my contacts arrives or leaves
I've reinstalled it. I've kept it running in the background etc
Not liking the new update at all. But would like up know how to fix the notify function on this app

I finally got this to work. Here's my procedure (and it's not ideal).
On all phones, background run must be ON for FMF.
On my phone:
Delete app
Reboot phone
On my wife's phone (yeah, this is why it's not ideal):
Delete app
Reboot phone
Reinstall app on both phones
Sign in on both.
Setup geofence via Notify Me when (wife) leaves home on my phone
Setup geofence via Notify Me when (husband) leaves home on her phone
Et voila.
Notifications started working again.
So, it's not ideal because it requires your target to delete, reboot and reinstall/signin for this fix to work. That said, if you're using it to track your kids when they're out on dates or whatever, you should have access to use this workaround.
Hope this helps!!
BK

HT204407 Find my friends Icon disappeared after upgrade to ios 8. I tried restarting as well as reinstalled the app but its not working. I can find it in Usage, but not in spot light. Pla help!!j

Find my friends Icon disappeared after upgrade to ios 8. I tried restarting as well as reinstalled the app but its not working. I can find it in Usage, but not in spot light. Pla help!!

I have exactly the same problem on a 4S on iOS 8. Have tried uninstalling, deleting FMF from backup, resetting phone and restoring from backup, but the problem remains. Sometimes the icon appears on a backup Home screen in iTunes, but it never appears on the phone itself. The app is accessible by going to the store, purchases and opening it from there. The app appears to have been running the whole time, but becomes invisible anytime I return to the home screen.

HT204407 find my friend app problem

my find my friend app pops up when i hit the icon to open and use it then it closes after a couple seconds what is wrong with it?

Welcome to the Apple community.
You might start out by force quitting the "find my friends" app, then restarting it. If this doesn't help try deleting it and then reinstalling it.

HT204407 Find my friends app help

when i open the find my friends app, i login and it says "[email protected] check your email for instructions to verify this account" but when i check the default email on that phone, its not there.

Have you looked here:
iCloud: Troubleshooting Find My Friends
Is the default mail on your phone the email address that you associated with your Apple ID?

HT204407 Find My Friends app

Find my Friends app shows my location services as off. Even though I said yes when it asked to use it. How do I turn it on?

This doesn't help. When I follow the path above, for Find my Friends it shows it as working while using. But when I am in the app, at the bottom where it has Me listed- it says Location Services off in red letters. When I push on that, it takes me to a screen that has a Share My Location option that is off. It is greyed out so that I can not change it.

HT204407 Find My Friend Label unaccessable

The FMF app shows the work location of my wife, but it does not allow me to assign a label to that location. The "Label" button is grayed out. Can anyone solve this riddle?

You do realize that Find My Friends is not a 3rd party app. The original poster is exactly where he needs to be for support.
In any case, the actual answer to the question is that labeling will be unavailable whenever the location accuracy is not high enough. (Poor cell or GPS reception on the located device)

HT204407 Find My Friends shows all of south Brooklyn as Long Island.

Is there anyway to report Find My Friends bugs?
All of south Brooklyn shows as Long Island.

I found this post after losing secondary iCloud account support for multiple device "Find my iPhone." We used a secondary iCloud account to locate the entire family's iDevices in one place, and Apple removed that functionality in iOS7. Someone suggested using Find my Friends, which seems like a reasonable alternative, but I'm having hte same problem you describe. Before iOS7, were you able to locate devices that were not open to the app? If so, I hope Apple decides to fix this.

HT204407 Find my friends keeps randomly turning on my "hide" function

Find my friends keeps randomly turning on my "hide" function. I go in and turn it off, but then it turns it back on again. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, doing a hard reset, and restarting the program.

I had the same issue. I deleted the app and reinstalled. It solved the crashing and all my existing friends were still connected to my account (I did not have to re-invite them).

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Hi why does the time and location not change on the find a friend app when you are locating a friend. But will update on another friend? Thank you

Is he using the iPad or iPhone?
Is Settings > iCloud account registered?
Try Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings.

HT204407 Find my friends server error

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