Question on Shared iCloud account and Find Friends
My wife and I share a common iCloud account on our iPhones because we want to share calendars, contacts, etc. I recently upgraded to IOS 8 and it seems to have changed how Find Friends works. Since Find Friends uses the main iCloud account as identifying "Me", both phones cannot independently report their location (i.e, if I set phone #1 to "share my location from" from phone #1, then the share location on phone #2 is set to phone #1 since the same iCloud is used on both phones).
I thought that I had this working correctly prior to the upgrade, but maybe I am misremembering. Was there a way in prior versions to set up different apple ID's for Find Friends (like you can for Messages and FaceTime) so that it didn't force you to use the main iCloud account?
Hi Seal,
And the Mac is connected to Wifi? Also, when you say the Find My iPhone "tab" doesn't locate any devices, want to make sure that you mean the Find My iPhone icon on the iCloud website on the Mac:
And when you click on the Find My iPhone app, you are not seeing anything at all under Devices:
Just want to make sure we are on the same page....
Cheers,
GB
Cheers,
GB
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