

On the following screen, type in your Apple ID or phone number.Īt that point, you’ll open Find My Friends on your own device and accept the invitation. Then click the “Add” button to send an invite to your own device. You can get it right from the App Store if so. Within the app, then, you’ll log in with your kid’s Apple ID if it asks you to.

Darn, I loved that thing, so I feel for you kids.īut still, this tip must be written: Let’s cover how to stop your children from turning off Find My Friends or changing the settings for it! So in case tracking your kid’s device at all times is necessary, this is how you’ll prevent anything being changed or disabled.įirst, if Find My Friends isn’t installed on your child’s device, you’ll of course want to do that. I wouldn’t have liked my parents doing that to me! Of course, when I was a kid, “locking down” my “devices” would’ve meant putting my Nintendo into a closet or something.

Y’know, every time I write one of these tips on how to lock down kids’ devices, I feel a little guilty.
