I need to locate my children's iPhone...

Is it possible to set up "Find my iPhone" for me to be able to locate my children's iPhone if they've already set it up for themselves?  In other words, can one iPhone be set up by two individuals with separate "Find my iPhone" accounts, i.e. my children set it up for themselves and then I set their phones up for me to be able to locate their phone...to give them privacy with their email accounts, but still be able to locate their phones myself?

You can't set it up with a separate account but you could install the Find My iPhone app on your phone.  This would allow you to log into the iCloud Apple IDs associated with each of their phones and locate their iPhones on a map without giving you access to all of their iCloud data (such as their email accounts).

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