IOS – Navigate to current location of a friend

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I must be missing something simple – I've located my son using iOS 8's Find my Friends app, and now I want to use Maps to navigate to that location.

How can I do that? I don't see a way to start a navigation from the Friends app, Siri always wants to navigate to my son's home address (I know where that is, thanks), and Maps doesn't seem to offer access to Friends either…

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Tap the friend in the list, then go to More → Open in Maps. From there you can navigate normally.

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IOS – Why does iPhone Maps app sometimes ask to enable Wi-Fi for “accuracy”, even though Location Services (GPS) is enabled

The iPhone uses assisted GPS to improve the accuracy of the location system using GPS and cell towers. Wi-Fi networks are used to help determine the device's location; this is called a hybrid positioning system (XPS).

Prior to iOS 4 iOS tapped into the Skyhook Wireless database of Wi-Fi hotspots and their locations. Apple disclosed in April 2010 that they had switched over to their own proprietary database.

If Location Services is on, your device will periodically send the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple, to augment the crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations. In addition, if you are traveling (for example, in a car) and Location Services is on, a GPS-enabled iOS device will also periodically send GPS locations and travel speed information in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple, to be used for building up a crowd-sourced road traffic database. The crowd-sourced location data gathered by Apple does not personally identify you.

For your security concerns, read this Apple press release.

IOS – Saving GPS Coordinates in Contacts

According to Apple's developer documentation about their MapLinks iOS/macOS supports map urls via a web link (using http or https) to maps.apple.com - so to link to GPS coordinates one uses:

https://maps.apple.com/?ll=50.894967,4.341626

Also just to add it seems that 'geo:' maps scheme standardised in RFC5870 sadly doesn't appear to work on iOS/macOS. Although according to the geouri.org there is some support in Android, and other applications.

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