Mikey Campbell
In a minor update to its iOS device-finding Find My Friends app, Apple has added a slightly tweaked user interface for searching and setting notifications based on proximate location, bringing the title up to version 2.1.
With the new Find My Friends version, the app's "Notify Me" page now features a customizable boundary, or geofencing, option that can be expanded or contracted around a located iOS device. Users can adjust the monitored area around a device by selecting the "Change Location" button, which resets the geofencing threshold to allow for more accurate location-based notifications.
With the added functionality, users can select and manipulate the purple circle representing the geofencing around a tracked device, giving a bit more customization to the previous set threshold.
In addition, the notification page's UI has been slightly tweaked to show an Apple Maps thumbnail image of a device's current location.
Find My Friends is available as a free universal download from the App Store and requires iOS 6.1 to run.
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ah, yes ... the "don't stand so close to me" feature is one step closer to fruition ... (love it, by the way.)
Nice stitching
Nice stitching
The lack of a physical analogue is the reason the overt skeuomorphism doesn't work as well here.
Sweet! I've been wanting this feature in Find My Friends and Reminders for years.
Sweet! I've been wanting this feature in Find My Friends and Reminders for years. Now they need a Bubble Popping option that will send you a notification if one of the people you follow enters into your geofence border. You happen to be in Times Square and you just happen get a notification that such and such is close by. This would have helped Ferris Bueller's parents catch him in the act even if they didn't actively check FMF.