Chris

Very much this. Our kids all attended high school in a rural setting, which means it was some distance from our home and reliant on council funded taxis or minibuses for at least part of the journey in and out - unless of course there was an after school club or a planned visit to a friend’s house which might be in a different village or (not uncommon in our case) on a farm literally in the middle of nowhere.

Find My is the single biggest reason our whole family have iPhones and is the reason we have been able to give our kids freedom to have a social life they would not otherwise have had, given where they grew up. It is not primarily about surveillance - (us making sure they are where they say they are) but much more about contingency planning when times or venues change, or when we have to find one of them on a friend’s farm somewhere.

Also, now two of them are young adults and learning how to negotiate city life, sometimes they’re grateful that when they get stuck, I can see where they are and either advise them where to go to get a bus/train/taxi or else come out and collect them myself. The eldest one, having his own phone account, is of course under no obligation to keep Find My switched on for his parents as it’s his phone, which he’s paying for, but even he is happy for it to remain on.

Off topic, but the unspoken contract with the young adults in our family is that even though me & missus can see where they are at all times we never ask them ‘how did you enjoy town last night?’ - we ask them what they got up to on their weekend same as our parents would have asked us, and let them tell us as much or as little as they want.