Suppress the Stop Sharing Error Every Time I Delete an Imessage

I know from my own experience that many people have asked about this annoying error and I have even submitted a few cases to Apple support to no avail.


If you choose to share your location with someone indefinitely, then create a new Imessage with them, and then later decide to remove that Imessage, you will get an annoying popup that asks - "Do you wish to stop sharing your location with this person? Yes or No?". The fact of the matter is, if I've previously chosen to share my location with someone indefinitely, I have other ways to stop sharing it with them without needing a popup everytime i delete an Imessage with them. Some people don't like to keep their Imessages hanging around if they are not active conversations.


I know one user reported a solution to the problem by creating the Imessage using your friend's EMAIL vs their phone number, but this solution does not always work for some reason. Also, someone else suggested that the person you want to always share your location with needs to FIRST share their location with you indefinitely FIRST seems to suppress the Error prompt, but that does not always work either. Similarly, someone suggested that before you share your location with someone you should ALWAYS share using their email address first, and then add their phone number later. But all of these methods do not consistently work every time.


Apple support seems to indicate that there's no known workaround for this problem, yet I know someone has figured out the magical combination. I don't have the issue with all of the people I share my location with, just certain ones - and they all have Iphones. If you like to keep your Imessage app clean, and I know some of you do, then you will find this error not only frustrating, but sometimes just down right irritating!

iPhone 14, iOS 17

Posted on Feb 9, 2024 10:01 PM

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Posted on Mar 23, 2024 01:54 PM

Everytime there’s an iOS update, the dreaded error comes back. In the past, I’ve been able to use the solutions you listed- mostly sharing via their email. This time, nothing seems to work. It’s so annoying and frustrating. I’ve wasted so much time playing with this. Fortunately, the people I’m trying to share location with are family and patient. (I keep having to text, delete, unshare, reshare, etc etc.) I wish Apple would fix this!

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Mar 23, 2024 01:54 PM in response to misterg68

Everytime there’s an iOS update, the dreaded error comes back. In the past, I’ve been able to use the solutions you listed- mostly sharing via their email. This time, nothing seems to work. It’s so annoying and frustrating. I’ve wasted so much time playing with this. Fortunately, the people I’m trying to share location with are family and patient. (I keep having to text, delete, unshare, reshare, etc etc.) I wish Apple would fix this!

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