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2 Ways to Share Your Real Time Location with Others

At times you need to share your real time location with your near and dear ones, especially if you are on a trip with your friends/family (those Goa trips you know ?). Then you have come to the right place. Today I’ll be sharing few ways by which you can share your live location with others.

Also, Read | 3 Useful Google Maps Tips you should know about

1. Sharing location with others via Google Maps

  1. Open Google Maps on your Android Phone, iPhone, or Tablet.
  2. Click your profile picture on top right (as shown on the pic).Google Maps
  3. Go to Location Sharing, and click on Share Location.
  4. Here you can set the time limit for how long you want to share your location with your dear ones. Or you can even set it to Until you turn this off (this will share your location until you manually turn it off.realtime location time
  • If the other person has google account (and it is added to your contact list), then you can directly share your location with them by tapping on their profile from the share menu.
  • If the other person doesn’t have a google account (or if you don’t know their Gmail ID), then you can just Click Copy to Clipboard. (Which can be shared by many different ways) clipboard

Note: You can even request the location of the person, with whom you are sharing your location with. (Which they can accept/deny as per their choice)Request Location

How to Stop sharing your location

  1. Open Google Maps.
  2. Click on your profile picture, and tap on Location Sharing.
  3. Tap on the profile of the person you don’t want to share your location with.
  4. Click on Stop.

How to see someone’s location

  1. Open Google Maps on your Phone, iPhone, or Tablet. If you’re using a computer the go to Google Maps Website.
  2. Tap on your profile picture. If you’re using a computer go the hamburger menu (3 lines) on top left.
  3. Click on Location Sharing.
  4. Tap on the Profile of the person, you want see the location of. You can click on Refresh from time to time, to get the latest updated location of your dear ones.refresh realtime location

Along with these there are few other things which you can try out, like Hide/Show someone’s location or even block/unblock someone. There’s also an added functionality with which you can even share your navigation data like mode of transport, destination, estimated time of arrival, and route details, etc.realtime navigation share

There are some scenarios where you cannot share your location with others, and you may get a waning message. The common cases are as follow:

2. Sharing location via WhatsApp

WhatsApp also allows to share your live location with other (which is a bit more easy to understand, and it is also based on Google Maps).

Also, Read | 10 Hidden Secrets of WhatsApp new Data Sharing policy with Facebook

Steps to share location from WhatsApp

  1. Open WhatsApp.
  2. Tap on the profile of the person you want to share your location with.
  3. Click on the Pin icon at the bottom of the screen.
  4. Select the duration ranging from 15 minutes up to 8 hours. You can even add a note along with your location.
  5. The location data will automatically stop once the timer runs out.

So these were 2 easy ways by which you can share your location with your near and dear ones. You can try any one as per your choice. Stay subscribed to GadgetsToUse.com and our YouTube Channel for more such amazing tips and tricks.

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Gaurav Sharma

As an editor, Gaurav ensures the delivery of quality-rich, detailed, and accurate content tailored to the right audience. His three years of experience as a reviewer allow him to provide comprehensive evaluations of various consumer gadgets. On the video front, Gaurav serves as a video production manager for both long and short formats and anchors short videos at GadgetsToUse.