What is Blue Circle around the contacts picture in shared location in iPhone ?[Solved]

 Apple has a very innovative with kind of feature it provides to its users. One such feature is that it allows you to share your location with your friends in your contact. You can set this feature simply by going into contact details and configure share my location.  The blue circle in contact is shown in the Location sharing seen on iMessage, and Find my friends. 


blue circle around contact picture in iphone location


But many a times iPhone users are noting a big blue circle around the contact pictures while going through their shared location. The blue circle around the photo of contact is not for all the contacts but for some of the contacts only.

blue circle around contact picture in iphone Find my friends



If you are also seeing Blue highlighted circle around contact fixture in iPhone shared locations then you should know that it’s not an issue in iPhone but an feature in iPhone. We have described below Blue circle around picture Find my friends.


What does a blue ring around a contacts picture mean in location in iPhone 12/11 Pro Max/ XR/XS MAX/8/7/6s Plus : iOS 14?


When iPhone is showing  highlighted blue ring around the contacts  that means that the location accuracy is not 100%, and the location is within that blue shaded area, but not exactly determined. This will usually have iPhone is inside a big building or something is restricting  to determine the exact location of iPhone.



We hope that our artilce helps you to understand blue circle and contact picture in iPhone locations.



Comments

Anonymous said…
great post. I really like it.
Josh said…
The article doesnt explain the blue circle around the users image very well. If the blue circle is around that means their exact location is unknown and they are somewhere in the blue transparent circle but if the blue circle is not around the image their exact location is known but they are again somewhere in the blue transparent circle? Please explain.
Val said…
Like Anonymous said, It sure doesn’t help much. Are you saying that if there’s a bright blue ring around the contacts picture, their location is not 100% precise but is ok the gray highlighted area shown around that contact? Therefore, if there’s NOT a bright blue ring around their picture, their location that shows is very precise????