Many
iphone X/8 and iPhone 7/6s /iPad users are facing issue with imessage sharing
location feature that when they are trying to share out locations, they are not
able to see the location of each other on imessage after upgrade to iOS 11.
Even with iOS 12 beta the issue is seen some cases where the location is not
sharable by imessage. It just says
"Location not available".
While in some cases it stopped working on the cellular data when users upgraded
to the ios 11. The Sharing Location feature only works on wifii network, which
isn’t very helpful.
The
strange part is that when location says "No location Available" in
imessage, it usually is still showing the correct location in "Find my
Friends App"
Fix
imessage location not sharing
Fix 1: Turn on cellular service
When
share location works only on WIFI and to be enabled Set whether cellular data
is used for apps and services on cellular in Settings > Cellular. You can
find this feature listed there as "Find Friends." If a setting is
off, iPhone uses only Wi-Fi for that service. Please turn this on for using it
on cellular services.
Fix 2:
iCloud location sharing settings
Please
first go to settings -> Apple ID (Tap your name at the top of the settings
list)-> "Family Sharing" -> "Location Sharing" On.
Now
next step -Update icloud : Settings > iCloud >Share My Location > From
(this device).
On
the select “This Phone" and it
should work fine
Fix 3: Restart
the location service
Turn
off both all Apple devices to share location, iPad and iPhone. Reboot
iPhone/iPad, turned off location sharing
- reboot again. Turned it on and turned on location sharing again. Now it
should be working fine.
Woraround
:
One
workaround is to stop sharing and then re share the location with the specific
person. This is helpful for that particular contact only.
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