Urgent ~ can someone track your iPhone?

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maclongshanks

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#317571 26-Oct-2024 22:21

Hi everyone,

I'm sorry if this has been covered already somewhere. I've done a few site searches and have looked through the relevant forums but I can't find anything that answers this 🐾🙏🏽

Please feel free to pass on any links if it has been answered :)🌸

I'm asking on behalf of someone. Can another person track the exact or nearby location of your mobile phone, with any degree of accuracy?
If so how can that be done?

They haven't given permission for it to be tracked.

They have an iPhone. I've seen something about people being able to find the location of their own iphone using I think Find My iPhone.
Can another person use that to find the exact or nearby location of someone else's iPhone?

If they are synced to another person's Apple device or account, could they track them through that?

They also have a Gmail account. Is it possible to track their exact or nearby location using that?

We need definite information on this.
If anyone is able to help fairly urgently we'd be very grateful 🐾🙏🏽

Thanks so kindly :)
🐾🐈🐈🐈

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#3301961 27-Oct-2024 10:30

Location Services can be specified per app, and you can see which are enabled or not simply by looking in Settings, and disable what you don't want to use Location from the same place: https://support.apple.com/en-nz/guide/personal-safety/ips9bf20ad2f/

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#3302213 27-Oct-2024 23:26

maclongshanks: So just to confirm, there's definitely no way they can be tracked through Google, Maps or anything to do with their Google account unless they are location sharing, or they've given the person their Google account password?

Correct.

maclongshanks: Is that the same for Apple Maps? I didn't know about them but we should make sure of that too.

Yes, the same.

maclongshanks: Someone did say apparently you can put someone's phone number into Google somehow, or Maps, and it will show their location just from their number.

This is not possible.

maclongshanks: They were adamant it can be done though. I know people make things up, but we need to make sure that's definitely not true?

Law enforcement and emergency services could do it, with the help of the telco provider, generally with a warrant. Otherwise this is not available to the public and certainly not in any website.

Some trackers work with iPhone and Android, such as Apple Airtag and Chipolo Point.

If an unknown tracker is close to a person for more than a few minutes, the phone will notify the person so the person can search for them. Someone could attach a tracker to a car, drop it in a bag, etc. Again, if an unknown tracker is constantly following the person, the phone will let you know.