Using Find My Friends

At the same time Apple released iCloud and iOS 5, they also released a free new iOS app called Find My Friends. With this app, you can locate the iOS devices (presumably being carried by your contacts), as long as they’ve given you permission to locate them.

You can use Find My Friends in two ways. You can set up a list of contacts that you can locate all the time (for example, your close family members) and you can also set up temporary events to which you can invite people and that automatically expires at a set time. You might want to set up and use temporary events when you and a group of colleagues are attending a conference, or when extended family members are at a vacation spot, or when you and some friends are attending a concert or sporting event.