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(Free) - This Apple-published app lets you see the current position of friends and family who trust you (via an explicit setting in which you agree to share your location with a given user) with their current real-time location. Unlike Glympse, this works passively all the time by periodically uploading your current position to Apple servers. We run this all the time, and it’s something I sought for a long time as a way for my family to rendezvous. It's still one of a handful of friend-locating apps that shows an auto-orienting map view, so you can hold the phone and walk toward the spot where your friend is. It's not perfect - the auto-orienting cancels if you pinch to zoom in or out - but it's better than trying to describe your positions to each other over the phone.
Note that in addition to automatically reporting your position, you can also turn the position-reporting off, or manually report your position as wherever you'd like.
(Find My Friends)
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