preface

Checking up is a common occurrence during a relationship. Relationship builders often use voice and video calls to achieve this, but these two methods do not always work. “Find” is an APP designed to locate devices and friends on iOS. If used properly, “Find” in iOS is also a good extension of check.

This article does not discuss the moral and ethical relationship behind it, but only focuses on several potential ways of technological confrontation, which hopefully will not affect the intimate relationship between readers.

To find the

Search is a system-level APP in iOS, which allows you to query your friend’s location in real time. There should be similar apps in the market even when the other party does not open the APP, but it is not within the scope of this paper.

Just look up “Share my Location” on iOS and you can choose to share your location for an hour, for the day, or permanently. You can also set up notifications to be notified when someone is away from a certain place, not in a certain place, or in a certain place.

Start fencing

It all seems pretty cool and cool that young couples are sharing the safety of real-time location, but in fact, iOS “search” locations can be selected on devices, and the finder doesn’t know which device it is looking for:

At this point, the looker can use an iPad or other unused iPhone as a location-sharing device. The looker’s location in the APP shows that he is still at home, but he may not know where he went.

At this point, you might say, I just launched a wechat location sharing, but the truth is, you only need a Mac, you can change iOS location, see the following article

So how do you fight this? There is also “home sharing” in iOS. After sharing, you can see the location of all the devices of the shared user:

At the end

This article is more about the technical aspects of the potential, rather than provoking suspicion and distrust in intimate relationships. In the course of a relationship, the parties have their own scales in mind, and if you already have to rely on these means of coercive restraint, it will be the last straw. In short, trust is also mutual, good luck.