For instance, you can share your location with a trusted friend when you’re on your way home from a night out. Snapchat is pitching this as a “buddy system” feature of sorts. Again, the company emphasizes that you should only use the feature for “trusted friends and family.” Instead, it must be enabled on a friend-by-friend basis. There is also no option to share Live Location with all of your Snapchat friends. Instead, the company says that you can enable live location sharing with trusted contacts for as short of a time period as 15 minutes, or as long as 8 hours.Īdditionally, the feature is disabled by default and users can also pause location sharing without sending a notification to the other person. First off, the Live Location feature is not meant to be enabled on a 24/7 basis. To address potential privacy issues, Snapchat has implemented a handful of different safeguards to prevent stalking and harassment. Snapchat’s new Live Location feature is described as a way to share your precise location with “trusted friends and family.” In the past, the Snap Map feature has only showed approximate location, and that location information only updates when the Snapchat user opens the app, not in the background. This is an expansion of Snapchat’s incredibly popular Snap Map feature that launched back in 2017. Snap has announced a new real-time location sharing feature, which it says is designed to be used as a “buddy system” of sorts. Snapchat is continuing its busy week of announcing new features, this time with its eyes on Apple’s Find My network.
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