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Does Life360 notify when you turn off location?

Not as a notification. Life360's page says that when you turn off Location Sharing, "other members of your Circle will see 'Location Sharing Paused' under your name." Turning the app's location permission off in your phone's settings shows them a "Location permissions off" alert message instead.

Life360 documents two different switches, and it documents what your Circle sees after each one. It does not describe either as sending a notification. What it describes is a change on their screen.

Pausing inside the app

Life360's Share My Location page, under the heading Location Sharing Off: "When you turn off Location Sharing, other members of your Circle will see 'Location Sharing Paused' under your name. This only affects the Circle you turned it off in. If you are in multiple Circles, repeat the steps above in each Circle you're in."

So it is a label, not an alert — and it is per Circle. Switching it off in one Circle leaves every other Circle you belong to seeing you as normal.

Turning the phone permission off

This is a different switch with a different result. Life360's page for the person watching says: "If a Circle member has turned off location services in their phone settings, you will see a 'Location permissions off' alert message. If they are logged out of the Life360 app, you will see a 'Logged out of Life360' alert message. If a Circle member's app has lost connection, their icon on the map will be greyed out." Again, three different things the other person sees — not three notifications Life360 says it sends.

The one notification Life360 does document

A No Show Alert is set up in advance by another member, on a saved Place. Life360: "No Show Alerts notify you when a Circle member does not arrive at a saved Place by the expected time or if their arrival can't be confirmed because location sharing is off." If someone has set one on you, your sharing being off can produce an alert on their phone.

What Life360 says is still shared

  • "Tapping Check In shares a nearby location or one you choose to name."
  • "Sending an SOS alert will share your location in every Circle you're in."
  • "If you have Crash Detection enabled and a collision is detected, it will share your location with your Circle and emergency contacts."
  • "Turning off Location Sharing stops future updates, but it doesn't delete the location history Life360 has already collected."

The full step lists for both switches, on iPhone and on Android, are on the Life360 page of this site.

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Question Can someone see if I turn off my location? It depends on the app. Apple says "The person that you stop sharing with won't be notified", while Life360 says your Circle sees a "Location Sharing Paused" label under your name. Snapchat, Instagram and Google Maps document what the other person's screen shows and say nothing at all about notifying them. Question Does Find My notify when you turn off location? No, and Apple states it in one sentence: "The person that you stop sharing with won't be notified." Apple's Personal Safety guide adds that the people you previously shared with "may notice that you've stopped", and that on earlier operating systems "they may receive a notification in Messages that you stopped sharing." Question How to turn off location without notifying It depends on the app, and only Apple and Snapchat answer it in writing. Apple says the person you stop sharing with won't be notified, and its own safety guide adds that they may notice you have stopped; Snapchat says friends you pick for a location setting aren't notified when you choose them. Life360, Google Maps and Instagram document what the other person's screen shows instead, which is not the same promise. App guide Life360 Life360 has two different switches and they do not do the same thing. Pausing location sharing inside the app leaves a Location Sharing Paused label under your name for that Circle; turning the app's location permission off in your phone's settings is a separate switch, which Life360 documents as showing a Location permissions off alert instead. App guide Find My Find My has one switch per person, a one-day pause per person, and one master switch for everyone; Messages, Maps and Contacts all reach the same share. Apple's sharing page says the person you stop sharing with is not notified. Apple's safety guide adds that they may notice you have stopped. iOS 27 · iPadOS 27 iPhone & iPad One master switch, one switch per app, and a precise-or-approximate choice underneath each. Most people want the second one.