Is it though? I have FindMy turned on for my wife and I's phones and we share our locations. It's nice to know that if I pass out at the gas station or something she knows where to send the police, and vice versa. Or yknow if I lose my phone.

I'm sure it can be and is abused by some people, but my wife and I trust each other so this has literally never been a problem for us. We've never used it and I don't think about it at all - but if something happened it's nice to feel safer. I'm sure other people with healthy relationships probably find it the same way.

This really is big.

I'm in my late 30s and for the first time in my life I am in a relationship where I'm never afraid of my partner knowing where I am.

I would hope that if I passed out at a gas station, other people at that gas station (or nearby) would call for help for me. At least that's how it would work where I'm from.

I'm the type of person who will go on vacation to another state or country without telling my friends or family.

But is that because you do not want/care that they know, or because you want them to NOT know? Our family is not required by any means to actively inform each other about our movements, but at the same time they're no secret. I don't even check Apple's tracking app daily but when I need it, it is so convenient. "Hey, I'll come pick you up in 20; I see you're at the park. Just check on me and I'll pass by to pick you up."

The typical example when we use it is when one person is somewhere and another person is driving and will do a quick road-side pickup while passing by. Don't want to stand outside in the sleet for ten minutes waiting for the family member who is delayed due to weather? You could call every other minute and distract them, or you just check where they are right then.

I see how that's useful. Seems weird to have it on all the time though. I don't care if they know, just seems weird to have someone know where I'm at all the time.

i've known plenty of families that are not at all creepy toward one another, they share tons of information about what they are doing and thinking every day, and what do you know, healthy communication leads to close, healthy family relationships.

i don't know if I could live that way, but i am jealous of them.

Wife, kids, myself, all on "Find My". We all have been now for a decade at least. No one appears to be weirded out by it.

(Possibly because it is Apple? I honestly would not trust a 3rd party with a tracking app.)

As a parent (even though the kids are adults now) there is something akin to reaching out and touching them, for me, just by pulling them up on Find My. Seeing my oldest daughter at work, my middle daughter on campus ... things are right in the world.

My wife and I use google location sharing always-on. Mostly it's used to coordinate dinner with getting home from work. Occasionally it's useful when we separate at amusement parks or other crowded venues (ie, take the kiddo to find a potty). Basically it was annoying to keep explicitly turning on, so we just left it on.

There's another family that we (very) frequently travel with. We ended up always-on location-shared with them too, for the same reason. It's convenient, especially on road trips.

Maybe it's because we're well-established families in our 40s and 50s but this doesn't seem weird to us. None of us cares where the others are, unless there's a specific reason to care, and then it's really useful.

On the other hand, I don't understand why anyone would buy/install an app. It's built into the phones.

It’s just build into all Apple devices (look up Find My)

Which can be...turned off.