Enlist Apple Maps to Plan Your Next Vacation

Traveling doesn’t have to be a pack activity. If you’ve split up to explore separate areas of a city, the Maps app includes a shortcut for getting directions to others’ locations.

First, make sure you and your companions are following each other in the Find My app (a good idea whenever you’re traveling together). You’ll need to set the sharing duration to Indefinitely (versus one hour or one day), but when your trip is over it’s easy to stop following people.

You can always switch to the dedicated Find My app to locate them, but if you’re already in Maps, just type their name in the Search field. Below their name, which usually shows a home or work address, you’ll see “Location 10 minutes ago” (or whenever they were last pinpointed by the sprawling Find My network). Tap the name to see their current or last location, and then tap the Directions icon to see how to get to them.

The Maps app doesn’t track people in real time the way the Find My app does. If you want that level of way-finding, tap the Find My button.