You can tap the name to see what the person is tracking, though currently the app appears to offer no way to get rid of the geofence without removing the person as a follower altogether. Head to the Me tab to see if you’ve been geofenced if you have, the outline of the Location Services arrow appears next to the person’s name.

Geofencing isn’t entirely one-sided: You can see when your friend has put a notification on you, though you can’t remove it. (You get no specification beyond Repeat Every Time, unfortunately, so you can’t set up the alert at time intervals.) You can also set up these notifications as repeating alerts if you want your significant other to know when you leave work, for instance, you can set up a notification to ping them every time you do. If your contact isn’t using Find My Friends, they’ll receive an email with your current location (or when you left or arrived) if they do have the app, they’ll get an alert from it. Unlike with Notify Me, you can send your notifications out to anyone, whether they have Find My Friends installed or not. You can also flip this feature around and notify others of your location-either currently, or when you leave or arrive somewhere. (It’s also helpful, I’ve found, for timing carpool rides to work.) Note, though, that this feature works only on contacts who have upgraded their app to the latest version of Find My Friends and are running iOS 5 or later. This function is surprisingly useful for timing meetups with friends: For instance, if you’re walking distance from a restaurant and your pals are driving, you can set a geofence at a stoplight several blocks away when they go through it, you get a notification and can start walking.

You can access it by tapping on an individual contact and then tapping the Notify Me button from there, you choose whether the alert should fire when they enter or exit, and at what address. The new feature, Notify Me, lets you set up an alert for when your buddy arrives at or departs from a certain address.

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