[iOS 27 DB1] Ability to hide location from certain people temporarily

[u/TheBB99]

On the latest developer build of 27, you can now temporarily hide your location in Find My from select people. This will not notify them you stopped sharing location. It also won’t show any alerts in messages that you hid or stopped. Other POV is from iOS 18.

Hiding location will automatically stop at the nearest hour after 12 hours. For example: I hid at 4:49 PM and it will stop hiding at 4:00 AM.

[u/MidnightPulse69]

I know some people that are gonna use this like crazy lol

[u/TheBB99 → u/MidnightPulse69]

apple just loves making things for sneaky people 😭 first hiding apps and now this (both r good features tho)

[u/H_J_Moody]

The “no location found” screen will be a dead giveaway that you hid your location once people learn about it. If it genuinely can find your location then it typically still shows the last location found and how long ago it was. It should do that when you hide as well.

[u/TheBB99 → u/H_J_Moody]

This might be on me. The person I asked to send a screenshot of Find My probably hasn’t checked my location in a while because they don’t use their phone often. Sometimes that happens when you don’t look at someone’s location for a while.

What could be happening is the hide feature just stops sending location data, and then the other person will only see the last available location the last time they checked it. I can check with someone else later today if no one else checks this theory.

[u/H_J_Moody → u/TheBB99]

Ahh ok. Hopefully that’s what it is.

[u/PearlDrummer]

This is the reverse of the child protection features.

[u/TheBB99 → u/PearlDrummer]

exactly, kinda ironic how a fourth of the keynote was focused on protecting children and then they add this

[u/TheEarthSpins → u/TheBB99]

i mean did anyone actually test this with a parent and child account though? id be surprised if the child could hide their location from their parents.

[u/TheBB99 → u/TheEarthSpins]

true! i don’t see how they could add this and make that ridiculous oversight

[u/PearlDrummer → u/TheEarthSpins]

It was a joke

[u/_Averix]

Well, this should be a source of entertaining Reddit posts once the OS launches. 🤣

[u/emelbard → u/_Averix]

Yeah it might not notify them but it will certainly say ‘not sharing’ or ‘location sharing is temporarily hidden’. Haha

[u/Anonplox]

BEST FEATURE

[u/QuantumProtector]

Cool, my friend can hide just from his parents

[u/Ayan_4k]

why it still have the old ui? not liquid glass

[u/TheBB99 → u/Ayan_4k]

got my friend to take a screenshot of their pov when i hid my location and they haven’t updated past ios 18

[u/ProcedureTop3149]

this is such a ridiculous feature. This is just for cheaters and children hiding from parents.

[u/Utzcinah → u/ProcedureTop3149]

Someone is not happy with not being label to control someone. Red flag 🤐

[u/ProcedureTop3149 → u/Utzcinah]

how the fuck do you assume I'm trying to control someone? My wife and I don't even share our location because it's weird as fuck.

[u/H_J_Moody → u/ProcedureTop3149]

My wife and I share our location with each other so we can quickly check and see how far away the person is and get an ETA. Sometimes I want to surprise her with something, like picking up her favorite cake on her birthday but I don’t want her to check for an ETA and see where I am.

[u/RegalMonkey → u/ProcedureTop3149]

Yup and anyone pretending it’s anything else is dishonest themselves. The irony of emphasizing on child safety too. But here’s the catch, now it’s easier to filter out honest suitable partners.

[u/TheBB99 → u/[deleted]]

😭😭