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Why am I having so much trouble seeing my son's location on my iPhone 6 Plus?

Julie Bonneville

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I have trouble seeing my son's location on my iphone 6 plus.

My son and I share our locations. My son has an iphone 6 and I have the iphone 6 plus. My son can see my location but when I go to Messages - click on my son's message - Details, it says "Locating..." and comes back with "Location Not Available". He has selected, "Share My Location" and "Shared Indefinitely". There are times when I see his location for a second and than get the message, "Location Not Available".
 

Tartarus

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Re: I have trouble seeing my son's location on my iphone 6 plus.

It could be he is in a location with no GPS reception and cellular location triangulation is not fully reliable yet.

I noticed when checking in on Swarm/Foursquare, I have to wait a few seconds to get a location fix on my device. If he hasn't used any location services that day, that could be another reason for you to not being able to see his location.
 

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