Find my/location sharing abuse feature request
Does anyone else want iOS to give reports and request opt-ins regularly per contact for Find My?
Maybe offer the family member a decision to either stop receiving location or notify the person being tracked with a message asking for their approval to keep it enabled based on a description of the behavior like geofence alerts or suspiciously frequent checks. First time could be a temporary block but future blocks should be permanent if they refuse to be transparent about it with the person.
My concern is it’s awfully common, even for a good parent, to have difficulty letting go. Their own health could be at risk if they don’t think it over. A bad parent with that kind of visibility could play mind games and insist that they don’t do that. It seems unhealthy for both parties when a line is crossed and it’s impossible to prove when it is.
Having a report on such behavior would offer a potential victim with a reason they chose to stop sharing location. It would be some evidence for why they decided to continue sharing with some of their family but exclude others.
I bring this up because I have a younger friend/coworker (adult) whose parents appear to be crossing a line with family sharing/find my. They can’t so much as go to lunch with coworkers without getting interrogated. They tried turning it off but they were bullied within an hour and told it wasn’t that often. It made me sick to my stomach to see the look on their face when stuck explaining to a parent why they’re not at the office. In an emergency, they could always accept a pop up at the other end explaining.
There’s surely a way to improve how family sharing handles this brief, temporary, but critical time in life when transitioning from being a child to an independent adult more conscientiously. Not to mention other situations where a romantic partner or friend goes overboard and needs to decide whether to let the service report on it or accept a temporary or permanent block to think about what they’re doing.