The fastest way to hide your location is to turn Airplane mode on by opening Control Center and tapping the Airplane logo. Whether you like it or not, Tile, AirTags, and other trackers can be used to track your location without permission. However, Tile trackers do allow anyone you’ve shared them with to see their locations and even their location history.

You don’t need to leave your Apple AirTags behind since only you can see your AirTags’ locations. Keep in mind if you own a cellular Apple Watch, it can track your location even if you leave the iPhone at home. There are a few ways you can hide your iPhone location from your friends or family without them knowing that you did this. How you can hide your iPhone location from Find My Friends and iMessage How to Hide Your Location from Find My Friends & iMessage This guide is updated to work with iOS 16, which most iPhones are running now in 2023. Instead, you will want to rely on a different method, such as turning your iPhone off, enabling Airplane mode, or sharing from another iPhone or iPad. Remember, most methods of turning off location sharing do not hide your location from your cell phone service provider or from a government agency with a warrant. When you stop sharing your iPhone location with someone, they will see this change as a message in the iMessage app, and another message when you re-share with them - so turning off and on sharing isn’t a great way to hide your location, or at least not to hide that you are hiding the location. You may just want to go off the grid for a bit, or you may need to hide your location for another reason without stopping your iPhone location sharing completely. You can simply just stop sharing your location with friends or family in the Find My app, but in some cases, you may not want them to know you’re looking for privacy. They can even set alerts to let them know when you arrive at or leave specific locations. With Find My and iMessage location sharing it’s easy to feel like you’re constantly being watched by friends or family members who can see your location whenever they want to. It is easy to disable Find My Friends without others knowing you’re trying to hide your location from them and even dupe them into thinking you’re somewhere you’re not. There are a few easy ways to hide your iPhone location from Find My Friends and iMessage contacts so they can’t see or track your location.

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