Troubleshooting Guide for When ‘Find My iPhone’ Fails to Update or Display Location - Easy Solutions Inside

5 Easy Ways to Fix Find My iPhone Online Not Sharing Location

Find My iPhone can help you locate your iPhone, friends and family. And it can also help you find your lost iPhone. Recently, many users complained that they couldn’t share their locations with their family or friends due to the issue of Find My iPhone online not sharing location. If you are going through the same situation, don’t worry. In this guide, you will find how tofix Find My iPhone Online Not Sharing Location . Try the solutions below, and you will resolve this issue.

• Way 1. Enable Location Services and Share My Location
• Way 2. Allow Find My to Access Location
• Way 3. Sign in to Your iCloud Account
• Way 4. Fix Find My iPhone Online Not Sharing Location without Data Loss (Recommended)
• Way 5. Restore iPhone to Factory Settings (Not Recommended)

Way 1. Enable Location Services and Share My Location

Before sharing your location with others, you need to make sure the Location Services and Share My Location is enabled. When Find My iPhone says “Online, not sharing location”, it may be caused by disabled Location Services and Share My Location.

To enable Location Services and Share My Location, you need to follow the steps below:

Step 1.

Go toSettings >Privacy >Location Services , and toggle on theLocation Services .

Step 2.

On theLocation Services screen, tapShare My Location to enter theFind My screen. The first thing is to tapFind My iPhone , and turn theFind My iPhone toggle on. Next, back toFind My screen, tap theShare My Location toggle on.

Check to see if the issue is resolved. If you still get the message of “Online, not sharing location”, try the next way.

Way 2. Allow Find My to Access Location

Only when you allow Find My to use location services, it is able to locate your iPhone’s location.

Step 1.

OpenSettings >Privacy >Location Services .

Step 2.

TapFind My and chooseAsk Next Time orWhen Using the APP .

Way 3. Sign in to Your iCloud Account

The basic requirement for being able to use Find My iPhone is that iCloud has to be enabled on the device for locating your iPhone. So when the error message “Online, not sharing location” occurs, you might sign out of your iCloud account. Now follow the steps below to sign in to your iCloud account.

Step 1.

Go toSettings >Your Name .

Step 2.

Enter your Apple ID and password to sign in to your iCloud.

Way 4. Fix Find My iPhone Online Not Sharing Location without Data Loss (Recommended)

After checking the above settings, if Find My iPhone still shows “Online, not sharing location”, your iPhone’s system might go wrong. You should try fixing your iPhone system with a professional tool. Here you can useiOS System Recovery to upgrade or downgrade your iPhone’s system to the ideal version, even the beta version, so that your iPhone can return to the normal state. Then your issue of Find My iPhone online not sharing location could be solved.

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Steps to Fix Find My iPhone Online Not Sharing Location:

Step 1.

Free download and install iOS System Recovery. Launch it and chooseiOS System Recovery . Connect your iPhone to the computer with USB cable. After your device is detected, it will remind you to tap “Trust” on your iPhone.

Step 2.

ClickStart at the bottom right corner to continue the process.

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Step 3.

Choose repairing mode to fix your iPhone. Here we recommend you to chooseStandard Mode to fix your iPhone without data loss. If you want to completely erase all settings and content, you can chooseAdvanced Mode to fix your iPhone. Then clickConfirm .

Step 4.

ClickOptimize button to check iPhone model information and download firmware.

Step 5.

Select the iOS version that you want to download, and clickNext to start to download the firmware.

When the download is finished, open your iPhone and try again to check if the issue is fixed.

Way 5. Restore iPhone to Factory Settings (Not Recommended)

If the above steps don’t help you resolve the issue of Find My iPhone Online Not Sharing Location, the last way is torestore iPhone to factory settings. Because it will cause the loss of all data and settings, you’d betterbackup important data to iTunes or iCloud before resetting your iPhone. Or you can downloadiOS Data Backup and Restore to backup all iPhone data to your PC or Mac.

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After backing up your data, you can start restoring your iPhone to the factory settings. Open your iPhone and navigate toSettings >General >Reset , and tapErase All Content and Settings . Then your iPhone will be reset.

After resetting, you canrestore your iPhone from backup . Then open Find My iPhone to check whether the issue of Online Not Sharing Location is solved or not.

Final Words

Normally, you can fix the error message of “Online, not sharing location” by setting iCloud and Find My iPhone to be enabled on the device and allowing Find My iPhone to get access to your location. When the above solutions can’t resolve the issue, you can use iOS System Recovery to fix the issue of Online Not Sharing Location. If this error still exists, the last method you could try is to restore your iPhone to factory settings. Note that resetting your iPhone will cause the loss of all data and settings. So it is best to backup your iPhone data before resetting your iPhone.

In a word, hopefully you can fix the issue of Online Not Sharing Location. If you have any questions or ideas, feel free to leave your comments below.

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