I am sharing my location with some friends using Apple's Find My Friend service.
I am curious to know if they get to know how many times and when I have looked them up using Find My Friend?
IOS – Can a friend see how many times I have looked them up using Find My Friends
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If the messages are grey then they are being received. The colour doesn't change on the type they use. However if you use iMessage then the message back will be iMessage unless it stats above it that it is a message, as both users need to have iMessage enabled at the same time to use the feature, otherwise an SMS message is sent.
If you scroll up in the message history you will see what the last type of message used was. There will be a line break with iMessage or Message written in it. All messages after that point are dove via this method, until a new break is made.
I don't think there is any enforced limit for using one account on lots of devices if all you care to do is use Find My Phone. You will run into the 10 device limit if you try to install apps using this ID, but just entering it into iCloud and only turning on FMP (FMi / FMiP ??!) should scale past the limits people normally reach when using one ID for multiple devices.
Even if you get away with this, your users might get confused or wish to use Find My.../iCloud themselves and find you have locked their device
You might want to reach out to your Apple account rep to avoid running into several anti-fraud efforts that prevent this sort of mass scale deployment if you try to use one Apple ID for say the App Store on so many devices. In addition to that specifically being against the licensing terms, you will face delays if and when this account gets locked, so plan to test things out with a small group (say 3-8 devices sharing one ID) as a pilot before you decide how to manage all 100 devices.
There are quite a few MDM packages available, but without knowing your specific situation, it will be hard for you to determine if automating some of the management will be a good investment or if you can just use the Apple Configurator to set up your deices and depend on the end users to manage their Apple ID/iCloud accounts and not mess with your one set up to track all the devices.
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As per @ Nimesh Neema answer https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/339887/46541
Your location is sent from your device only when someone requests to see it.
It means, if you request your friends location, your phone knows his number (you shared it) and will send a "Ping signal" to find it.
Once your friends phone receives the Ping request it will reply to you with the location data.
So theoretically YES, your friend could know you looked him up (Ping), if he has the tools and knowhow.
Some more technical stuff about it.. Officially, in an IP network, a ping is a network took that allows you to determine if a host is available on the network or not. It uses ICMP echo packets (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc792) to do the deed. When somebody says ping a mobile on the network, what he really implies is to determine if where (what cell it is connected to) that mobile is in the network. So, this can mean the mobile is trigger to do a forced location update (LU). The mobile then reports itself into the network with its latest information.