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We have a family of five with family sharing between all of our devices. My sons I phone stops sharing his location, he says he’s not doing it. My questions are is that possible? Is there away to stop him from stopping sharing his location?
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iPhone XR, iOS 14
How badly do you want to undermine the trust you have established, and particularly undermine your son’s willingness to confide in you, with your efforts to achieve what is fundamentally an impossible goal?
Because whatever you might want to happen here, your son has agency too, can slow walk all of this, and can thwart your tracking efforts if so inclined.
The iPhone will “sporadically” be left uncharged, or will be placed in a shielded bag, or will handed off to a friend, or “accidentally” left behind somewhere, or your own passwords will get shoulder-surfed.
There are other allowance-scale parental bypasses available here, too.
Can you (try to) lock down the phone, and lock on Find My, and all the usual steps some parents will attempt? Sure. But your son gets a vote in all this, too.
You can restrict family members from turning off their location sharing in Messages and Find My by going to Settings > Screen Time > Content and Privacy Restriction > under Privacy lock the setting for location sharing in Messages and Find My Friends.
Learn more ⇢ Use parental controls on your child's iPhone and iPad - Apple Support
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Read abut stopping sharing location in:
Find people and share your location with Find My - Apple Support
Can a member turn off their location sharing on Family Sharing?
