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From: Connor Shannon <cshannon1898@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Can you share your location one direction?
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 16:17:20 -0800
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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:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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?