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Apple recently updated Find My, its popular geolocation app. Some people have welcomed the change, but others have raised concerns.<\/strong><\/p>\n With the new iOS 27 developer beta, released Monday, Find My users can now temporarily hide their location from certain people without notifying them.<\/span><\/p>\n As MacRumors first reported, a \u201cHide Location\u201d option appears on the user\u2019s Find My card in the People section under \u201cMy Location.\u201d The user can temporarily hide their location for 12 hours, after which it reverts to its previous shared-location state. When enabled, another button appears labeled \u201cUnhide Location.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The iOS 27 update includes several new features, such as improved AI for Siri and new child-safety tools. However, Apple did not mention the Find My update in its official online announcement.<\/span><\/p>\n Apple released Find My Friends in October 2011 as part of its iOS 5 announcement. The feature, previously only available as a download from the App Store, became a built-in, unremovable app starting with iOS 9. In September 2019, Apple combined Find My Friends and Find My iPhone into a single app called Find My with the release of iOS 13.<\/span><\/p>\n Experts believe the new update will likely get mixed reactions.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBy letting users choose specific people, this can help teenagers and others. Parents or spouses can still see where the user is, but access can be removed from people who do not need to know certain locations,\u201d said Kyle Verry, vice president of strategic partnerships at IntraTEM, a technology platform. \u201cAll features have massive pros and cons lists; this is no exception.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Currently, Find My lets users stop others from seeing their location while still viewing others\u2019 locations. However, users must manually turn location sharing back on, and the other person gets a notification when this happens.<\/span><\/p>\n Before iOS 27, users could choose to share their location with someone for an hour, a day, or indefinitely.<\/span><\/p>\n