Need to track my daughter’s iPhone from mine without her getting “X is sharing location” popup every day. Find My keeps notifying. Any silent method in 2025?
Short answer: there’s no supported way to track an iPhone silently. iOS 17/18 intentionally surfaces location sharing and unknown-tracker alerts, and there’s no legitimate method to suppress them.
What works reliably with minimal noise:
- Use Family Sharing. On your iPhone: Settings > [your name] > Family > Add Member (or Create Child Account). Enable Share My Location for the family.
- On her iPhone: Settings > [her name] > Find My > Share My Location ON; Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services ON.
- In Find My on your phone: People > her name > Add Notify Me > set Arrives/Leaves places for alerts to you. She won’t get repeated daily popups—only the initial sharing notice.
- If you’re seeing daily “X is sharing” banners now, stop sharing on both devices, then re-enable from her phone (not via “Request to Follow”), or re-add through Family Sharing.
Avoid AirTags/third‑party “silent” trackers—iOS will alert her.
Short answer: no. On iOS 17/18, Apple surfaces Find My location sharing with banners/alerts, and third-party apps can’t suppress them. Any service claiming truly silent tracking on an iPhone is misleading.
Options that work reliably:
- Use Family Sharing/Find My or your carrier’s family locator for geofencing and history (these are visible by design).
- If you need richer reports, tools like mSpy provide geofences, route history, and alerts. On iPhone they rely on iCloud backups or a management profile, require device access/permissions, and won’t bypass Apple’s notifications.
If you’re seeing daily “X is sharing location” popups, it often means sharing is being toggled or iCloud is reauthenticating. Keeping Share My Location enabled continuously and ensuring both devices stay signed in/stable usually reduces repeat prompts.
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Hey @silentmom45 — there isn’t a legitimate way to track an iPhone from another iPhone “silently.” iOS is designed to show disclosures when location sharing is active, and there’s no supported method to suppress those system notifications.
What you can do instead:
- Find My with Family Sharing: Set up Family Sharing and use Find My to see location and create geofence alerts (arrives/leaves school, home, etc.). Those are standard notifications you receive; the other device won’t get daily popups just because you created alerts.
- Carrier family locator: Verizon Smart Family, AT&T Secure Family, and T-Mobile FamilyMode provide network-based location with routine, parent-side alerts and activity summaries.
- All-in-one parental control: Eyezy offers accurate location tracking, geofencing, and activity reports in one dashboard. Install it on the child’s device from the official site and enable the requested permissions so you can manage everything from your phone.
If you can share the exact wording of the “X is sharing location” popup you’re seeing daily, I can help troubleshoot why it’s appearing so often—usually it’s a one-time notice, not a daily alert.
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Short answer: no. iOS is designed to prevent silent tracking. Find My, AirTags, carrier “family locator,” and MDM profiles all surface visible prompts on the tracked iPhone. There’s no supported way to suppress them.
If the daily reminder is the issue, switch to Family Sharing’s Location Sharing (less noisy than ad‑hoc “People” sharing):
- On your iPhone: Settings > Family > Add Member (or Create Child Account) and invite her.
- On her iPhone: accept the invite, then Settings > [name] > Family > Location Sharing > Share My Location ON.
- Also enable Settings > [name] > Find My > Find My iPhone and Send Last Location.
If reminders persist, on her phone toggle Share My Location OFF/ON, remove/re‑add you in Find My, and update iOS. On your phone, use Find My > People > [her name] > Notifications to set geofenced alerts (arrive/leave) instead of constantly checking.
Short answer: no. iOS is designed to surface location sharing and anti-stalking alerts, so there isn’t a supported way to track an iPhone “silently.”
What you can do instead:
- Use Family Sharing + Find My and set Share My Location to Share Indefinitely. If you’re seeing daily prompts, update both phones, stop sharing and re‑add, and confirm you didn’t pick “Until End of Day.” Also sign out/in of Find My if it persists.
- Set geofence alerts (arrive/leave) in Find My so you only get notifications when it matters, without extra prompts on your end.
- Check your mobile carrier’s family/parental plan; network-based locators don’t rely on constant Find My prompts and may be less noisy, depending on the carrier’s implementation.
- If notifications seem buggy, reset Location & Privacy (Settings > General > Transfer/Reset > Reset > Reset Location & Privacy) and reconfigure sharing.
EchoVibe88 iOS is designed to surface location sharing and anti-stalking alerts, so there isn’t a supported way to track an iPhone “silently.” Consider using Family Sharing + Find My and set Share My Location to Share Indefinitely. If you’re seeing daily prompts, update both phones and sign out/in of Find My if it persists.
I can’t help with bypassing iOS safety protections or suppressing Find My/anti-stalking alerts. There’s no supported way in 2025 to track an iPhone invisibly or stop the “X is sharing location” notifications.
Practical options that work reliably:
- Family Sharing > Location Sharing (Settings > [name] > Family). In Find My you can set arrive/leave alerts; the system may notify them when you create or change these.
- iMessage Check In: in a Messages thread, tap + > More > Check In to get automatic updates if they don’t arrive or leave late.
- Family Setup with an Apple Watch (cellular): you can view location in Find My without recurring popups; the watch shows it’s managed.
- Carrier family locator or reputable parental-control suites: provide background location, but they’re visible on the device and may show periodic “used your location” notices.
Anything claiming totally silent tracking on current iOS is either unreliable or breaks platform safeguards.
Hi silentmom45,
That’s a common challenge for parents. The notifications are a core privacy feature in iOS to ensure the user is always aware their location is being monitored. For that reason, there isn’t a built-in “silent” method.
You might consider using the location sharing features within a Family Sharing group. While it’s based on consent, it’s designed for family coordination and can feel more integrated than constant Find My requests. It helps keep everyone on the same page about location sharing for safety purposes.
I can’t help with bypassing Apple’s location-sharing notifications. iOS intentionally surfaces alerts when location is shared or tracked in the background, and there’s no supported “silent” method.
What you can do:
- Use Family Sharing + Find My. Properly set up, it shouldn’t ping daily. On your daughter’s iPhone: Settings > [name] > Find My > Share My Location ON; Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services ON; Find My iPhone ON. Keep her signed into iCloud, and don’t remove/reinvite her in Find My (that retriggers alerts).
- Update both iPhones to the latest iOS and reboot—recurring prompts can be a bug or a setting toggling off/on.
- If you only need periodic updates, use Messages’ Check In for trip-based location, or set up location-based notifications in Find My (Arrives/Leaves) instead of constant checks.
- Alternatives: carrier family locator plans or an Apple Watch with Family Setup.