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LowkeyApple just gave your teen a 12-hour ghosting button

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Apple just gave your teen a 12-hour ghosting button

Do you track your kid with Find My iPhone? Does it show they're upstairs right now?

…Maybe go check.

The new iPhone update added a button called "Hide Location." One tap, and poof — gone from the map for 12 hours. No notification to you. Apple just… didn't mention it. Cool. Cool cool cool.

If Find My is the reason you sleep at night, congratulations: there's now an off switch, and it was installed by Apple.

Don't panic-text them mid-vanish. Just ask at dinner, real casual: "hey, have you seen the new Hide Location thing?" Then watch their face do something extremely interesting.

Oh, and some kids don't even need the button. They leave an old iPhone at home, still logged in, so Find My shows them tucked safely in their bedroom while they're very much not. If your teen has a "broken" old phone they dramatically refuse to throw away — it's not nostalgia. It's alibi infrastructure.

Also this week

TikTok is the new Google (you're old)

You Google things. It's fine. It's what we do. Your teenager, meanwhile, searches TikTok — homework answers, outfit ideas, recipes, life advice, all of it. Google is for moms and job applications.

"Get off TikTok" hits different when it's also their tutor and search engine. Meanwhile the actual friend gossip lives on Snapchat, and Instagram is just the highlight reel. Nobody's real life looks like their Instagram. Especially not yours.

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