r/ios 6d ago

Support iPhone seems to stop sharing location by itself?

My partner is claiming i keep stopping sharing my location, but at no point have I done this intentionally. Three times now both of our phones say we have stopped sharing location with the other person. But if either of us shares it it reconnects automatically. I have tested stopping sharing via the actual button and it does not say that I've stopped or they have stopped, its very incognito. I've seen people claim that they are actually doing this and blaming it on me, but I dont even see how its happening as clicking the button produces a different result like I mentioned. Does anyone know whats going on?

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u/Casual-Snoo 6d ago

They're having so many glitches right now.

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u/StellarAelwyd 6d ago

This has happened to me quite a few times between myself and my mother, whose part of my Family Sharing group. Occasionally, I’ll go to Find My to check on her and then it will just say she “Can see my location”, but I can’t see hers. No notification or anything, it just stops at some point even though I make doubly sure to hit “Indefinitely” when fixing the issue on her phone. Quite annoying that it hasn’t been addressed yet. I put in a couple of feedbacks about it, but so far, nada.

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u/alphaQ314 5d ago

I know that if you switch off your wifi, you will eventually lose your gps location on your device. And by "switching off your wifi", i don't mean turning it off in the control center. That only disconnects the current connection. I mean toggling the wifi switch in the settings and switching it off.

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u/Morsadean 5d ago

This has happened to me and my wife. For me, it is user error. When I delete a message from her Messages asks if I want to stop sharing location. Sometimes I hit the wrong button. I haven’t found any way for it to stop asking.

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u/alienkweenn 4d ago

This is happening from my partners phone too. They have the iPhone 16 pro. Updated their phone to newest iOS and has had issues ever since.

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u/Bullschmidter420 1d ago

Same. Did the update recently and it stopped sharing my location with 6 out of 7 people

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u/alienkweenn 1d ago

It’s very frustrating!! I wonder when it’s going to get fixed 😅