Snapchat Introduces Reside Location Sharing for Customers Across the Globe

Snapchat on Friday launched Momentary Reside Location on its platform to let customers share their reside location with mates. The brand new characteristic, which is rolling out to all Snapchat customers globally, will let customers share their real-time whereabouts with mates to allow them to know that they’re en-route to fulfill up or when they’re going house alongside at night time. Nonetheless, reside location sharing is totally different from the common location sharing on Snapchat that’s obtainable via the built-in Snap Map since 2017.

With the brand new location sharing characteristic, customers on Snapchat can share their reside location updates with mates for a interval between quarter-hour and as much as eight hours. The characteristic works solely between mates on a person foundation. Because of this your reside location is not going to be seen to the complete neighborhood on the platform and can solely be shared with the pal who you’ve chosen from the app.

You and your pal should even have to simply accept one another as mates on Snapchat earlier than sharing your reside location. Additional, Snapchat exhibits a pop-up window when a person accesses the reside location characteristic for the primary time. It basically reminds customers that the reside location is supposed particularly for shut family and friends. The aim right here is to keep away from privateness points that would emerge on account of real-time location sharing.

The Momentary Reside Location Sharing characteristic is rolling out globally on Friday throughout Android and iOS.

The best way to share reside location on Snapchat

You possibly can share your reside location on Snapchat by going to the profile of certainly one of your folks with whom you wish to share your location in actual time. As soon as you’ve got opened your pal’s profile, scroll all the way down to see the Share My Reside Location choice.

Snapchat will now present you a pop-up to tell you in regards to the characteristic. You possibly can faucet Sounds good! to go forward after which choose the timeframe for which you need your reside location to be shared together with your pal.

Because the characteristic works solely between mates on a person foundation, there isn’t any choice to allow you to share your reside location with a number of mates without delay.

When sharing your reside location with a pal, they’ll see your Bitmoji with a particular ‘LIVE’ icon. The icon will, although, not be seen to others on the app.

The Momentary Reside Location characteristic on Snapchat comes as an extension of the prevailing Snap Map that was launched again in June 2017 the place you possibly can opt-in to share your location with your folks on the premise of your choice, resembling all mates and chosen ones.

Snap Map, nevertheless, solely updates location data when customers have the app open. This is not the case with the brand new characteristic as it should proceed to point out your reside location for the pre-selected time.

General, the Momentary Reside Location characteristic on Snapchat works just like how one can share your reside location together with your contacts on WhatsApp.

Snapchat father or mother Snap mentioned that it designed the brand new location sharing characteristic on the premise of neighborhood suggestions about how persons are utilizing Snap Map with their mates. Additionally it is part of a broader partnership with US non-profit ‘It is On US’ that goals to fight campus sexual assault via consciousness and prevention schooling programmes.

From right this moment, Snap can even be publishing a brand new public service announcement (PSA) throughout the Snapchat app “on rising bystander consciousness” to assist individuals restrict circumstances together with sexual assault.

Final 12 months, Snapchat revamped Snap Map with Discover and Recollections Layers to boost the location-based experiences on its platform. It additionally lately began serving commercials inside Tales to monetise content material.