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HeyPolo is a smarter Find My app for family, friends, and co-workers - 9to5Mac

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There are a number of ways to share your location with family and friends, from Apple’s built-in Find My app to location pins in messaging apps like WhatsApp. HeyPolo aims to deliver smarter features, including even greater privacy controls than available in the Find My app. The app was developed by the team behind leading VPN provider Surfshark, with seven key features on offer. Apple’s Find My app was, of course, originally known as Find My Friends and intended as a way to keep tabs on the locations of your family and friends. It’s still a great way to do this, but it’s not as smart as it could be. For example, when you choose to share your location, the only options available to you are for one hour, until the end of the day, or indefinitely. If you need to share your location beyond the end of the day, it’s easy to forget about it afterwards and end up sharing your location indefinitely. There’s also no option to decide how precise a location to share: it always shares exact location.…

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