One of the last Apple apps to be redesigned for iOS 7 is Find My Friends, the company’s network for sharing your location and viewing the location of friends on a map. Before today’s update, Find My Friends looked incredibly outdated with leather stitching and an old-style map design.
Now the app looks much more at home in iOS 7. No new features have been added, but the design includes a new icon, lightweight interface, and an orange color scheme (orange is apparently the new black, if Apple’s recent iOS 7 app updates are any indication).
Find My Friends was first introduced before the release of iOS 5 in 2011. Version 3.0 of the app is available in the App Store now.
Source: App Store
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5 responses to “Apple Finally Redesigns Find My Friends For iOS 7”
Nice, glad to see the UI refreshed!
Now they just need to update the icon for iTunes Connect Mobile and Logic Remote. Come WWDC 2014 I wonder if they will tweak that app’s icon as well to look more like iMovie instead of the current deep purple.
There are a few more comparison images here:
http://iosguides.net/find-friends-app-updated-interface-ios-7/
Needless to say this is a much welcome improvement!
There actually is a new feature. You can set geofence alerts that notify you when a friend arrives or departs a certain location, but you can also set geofence alerts that notify a friend when you arrive/depart a specific location.
and why can I still not set km vs. miles? I can have preferred measurements in Maps but not in Find my friends?