Re: Can you share your location one direction?

On 3/6/24 10:11 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:

On 2024-03-06, Connor Shannon <cshannon1898@yahoo.com> wrote:

On 3/5/24 4:58 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:

On 2024-03-05, Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:

On 2024-03-05 16:45, Connor Shannon wrote:

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Hi, I just got a new iPhone it has satellite SOS which is really
cool, I'm glad they built in a demo so you could try it out. I
found a satellite right away and then tried it a couple hours later
and found another one.
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Apple's web page about that says, "To share your location with a
friend via satellite, you must already be sharing your location
with that friend in Find My." I thought maybe I could set up a
couple of friends for emergencies but they don't want to share
their location so I guess I can't do that? When I added their names
in FindMy it said, "Name can see your location" but then there was
a little spinny circle which I guess would go on forever unless
they shared back so I don't think they really could see me.
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I guess maybe you can send the location one time with a text
message but you can't use FindMy unless the other person does it
too, right?

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Not my understanding of it.  When I pick up a buddy for breakfast on
the weekend, I send my position (not via satellite) using FindMy so
he can guess where to walk to to intercept my car.  I don't see his
position at all.

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Right. I do this when buddies visit town to let them know where I am
as I drive to pick them up from hotels and airports.
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Hi sorry I'm still trying to learn this new Usenet software I don't
know what happened to the msg I sent last night.
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Anyway like I said at first Apple says, "To share your location with a
friend via satellite, you must already be sharing your location with
that friend in Find My." ALREADY SHARING. With satellite you have to
set things up first when you have cellular or wifi. They said that
about other things when I was reading the satellite info, too. So you
can't just go into FindMy and send your location over a satellite like
you can normally like Alan and JR do.

 Yes, and that makes sense, because satellite communications are
necessarily restricted in nature.
 

So if you have to set sharing up first, does the other person have to
share back?

 Again, no. Sharing your location with someone is a one-way transaction.
If they want to share their location with you, that's a separate
transaction.
 

Okay, I guess my iPhone is right that I've shared my location as soon as I choose someone. But if the other person doesn't accept (share back) I get that little spinny circle. If they never accept, I don't think it will ever stop. That's okay? It won't run the battery down or anything?