Find My Gets 12-Hour Location Hide in iOS 27

Find My has quietly offered location sharing controls for years, but iOS 27 adds something the app never had before: a way to go dark for a fixed window without triggering a notification or permanently cutting someone off.

The new “Hide Location” option sits inside your own Find My card under “My Location” in the People tab. Tapping it suppresses your location for 12 hours, after which sharing reverts to whatever state it was in before. On the other person’s device, your card simply reads “No Location Found,” the same message that appears when someone’s phone is off or out of service.

That last detail is the interesting part. Apple is not framing this as a stealth feature, but the practical effect is that the person you’re hiding from gets no indication you made an active choice. For anyone who has wondered whether someone can tell when you’ve gone quiet on Find My, the answer has always been no, and this feature leans directly into that ambiguity.

A Broader Pattern in iOS 27

This fits a pattern Apple is building into iOS 27 more broadly, pulling friction-reducing tools into the OS itself rather than leaving users to manage workarounds through settings menus or third-party apps. Previously, pausing location sharing required either turning off sharing entirely (visible to the other person) or disabling location services system-wide, neither of which is subtle.

The 12-hour cap is a deliberate constraint. It prevents the feature from becoming a permanent workaround disguised as a temporary pause, and it means users who forget to manually re-hide will automatically resume sharing.

Developer beta 1 landed June 9. A public beta is expected next month, with the full release on the usual September schedule. Whether Apple adjusts the notification behavior before then is worth tracking, since “No Location Found” covers a lot of situations people might not want conflated.