iOS 27 Adds These New Features to Find My, Including 'Hide Location' - MacRumors
Skip to Content

iOS 27 Adds These New Features to Find My, Including 'Hide Location'

The upcoming iOS 27 update that Apple unveiled last week includes some new features and enhancements for Apple's Find My app on the iPhone.

iOS 27 and Find My Feature
iOS 27 is currently available as a developer beta, with a public beta to follow in July. The update is expected to be released to all users in September.

Below, we have outlined three additions to Apple's Find My app on iOS 27.

Hide Location

Find My Hide Location
A new "Hide Location" option in Find My allows you to discreetly pause your location sharing with specific people until the end of the day — the other person will not receive any notification or alert about you temporarily hiding your location. Apple says it added this feature for situations such as surprise birthday parties.

Custom Durations for Location Sharing

Find My Location Sharing Durations iOS 27
Find My now lets you share your location with others for a custom duration between 15 minutes and 30 days. You can set a precise number of days, hours, and minutes, or you can set a set a date and time for your location sharing to expire.

On iOS 26, there are only three preset timeframes: indefinitely, until end of day, and one hour.

Landscape Mode

Find My Landscape scaled
iOS 27 enables landscape mode in more of Apple's built-in iPhone apps, including Find My.

Landscape mode was already available on iOS 26 or earlier in Apple Maps, Calendar, Files, Notes, Mail, and some other Apple apps too, but iOS 27 expands support to many more apps. This change could be laying the groundwork for the "iPhone Ultra," as landscape-friendly apps would be well suited for the rumored foldable device.

To use landscape mode in a supported app, simply turn your iPhone sideways. Portrait Orientation Lock must be turned off in Control Center.

Related Roundups: iOS 27, iPadOS 27

Popular Stories

Everything New Your iPhone Can Do on iOS 27 Feature 1

30 New Things Your iPhone Can Do in iOS 27

Tuesday August 11, 2026 8:07 am PDT by
Apple will release iOS 27 in September, and despite the company's focus this year on refining its flagship operating system and nixing bugs, there are still many additional features on the way, not least of which is Apple's new context-aware Siri, re-tooled for the generative AI era. This year's major iPhone software update isn't all about AI, though, as the following feature list...
ios 27

iOS 27 Brings These Five New Features to Your iPhone Lock Screen

Thursday July 23, 2026 4:05 am PDT by
Apple unveiled iOS 27 at WWDC this week, and while the headline-grabbing Siri overhaul has received the most attention, the Lock Screen has picked up several refinements that you may have missed. Some are brand-new additions, while others are tweaks to features Apple introduced in iOS 26, but together they give you more control over how your Lock Screen looks and behaves. Here are five...
iOS 27 Feature Dark

Apple Seeds Fourth iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 Betas to Developers

Monday July 20, 2026 10:06 am PDT by
Apple today seeded the fourth betas of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 to developers for testing purposes, with the update coming two weeks after Apple released the third betas. Registered developers can download the betas from the Settings app on the iPhone or iPad by going to the General section and selecting Software Update. iOS 27 introduces Apple's smarter version of Siri, Siri AI. Siri AI is a ...

Top Rated Comments

8 weeks ago
Tim Cook's final "innovation": The cheating option.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
AppleWes Avatar
8 weeks ago
Wonder if surprise Birthday parties will show a dramatic increase in popularity after September 2026
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
8 weeks ago
"Surprise birthday parties". I am glad they described a use case, I could not think of one.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Happy_John Avatar
8 weeks ago
"A new "Hide Location" option in Find My allows you to discreetly pause your location sharing ('https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/09/ios-27-find-my-app-hide-location/') with specific people until the end of the day — the other person will not receive any notification or alert about you temporarily hiding your location. Apple says it added this feature for situations such as surprise birthday parties."

Yeah... Somehow I DON'T think that this will be the main use case for this feature.
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
joemama2300 Avatar
8 weeks ago
"Surprise Birthday parties," yeah, sure ok Apple
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
8 weeks ago
Can I make it say that I'm at church when I'm actually at the $trip club?
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)