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
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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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