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 dwell location with buddies. The brand new function, which is rolling out to all Snapchat customers globally, will let customers share their real-time whereabouts with buddies to allow them to know that they’re en-route to fulfill up or when they’re going dwelling alongside at night time. Nevertheless, dwell location sharing is completely different from the common location sharing on Snapchat that’s out there by means of the built-in Snap Map since 2017.

With the brand new location sharing function, customers on Snapchat can share their dwell location updates with buddies for a interval between quarter-hour and as much as eight hours. The function works solely between buddies on a person foundation. Which means that your dwell location is not going to be seen to your complete neighborhood on the platform and can solely be shared with the pal who you might have chosen from the app.

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

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

Methods to share dwell location on Snapchat

You possibly can share your dwell location on Snapchat by going to the profile of certainly one of your folks with whom you need 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 possibility.

Snapchat will now present you a pop-up to tell you concerning the function. You possibly can faucet Sounds good! to go forward after which choose the timeframe for which you need your dwell location to be shared along with your pal.

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

When sharing your dwell 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 function on Snapchat comes as an extension of the prevailing Snap Map that was launched again in June 2017 the place you may opt-in to share your location with your folks on the premise of your choice, akin to all buddies and chosen ones.

Snap Map, nevertheless, solely updates location info when customers have the app open. This is not the case with the brand new function as it’ll proceed to indicate your dwell location for the pre-selected time.

Total, the Momentary Reside Location function on Snapchat works just like how one can share your dwell location along with your contacts on WhatsApp.

Snapchat mum or dad Snap mentioned that it designed the brand new location sharing function on the premise of neighborhood suggestions about how persons are utilizing Snap Map with their buddies. It’s also part of a broader partnership with US non-profit ‘It is On US’ that goals to fight campus sexual assault by means of consciousness and prevention training programmes.

From right now, Snap will even be publishing a brand new public service announcement (PSA) inside the Snapchat app “on rising bystander consciousness” to assist folks restrict circumstances together with sexual assault.

Final 12 months, Snapchat revamped Snap Map with Discover and Reminiscences Layers to boost the location-based experiences on its platform. It additionally not too long ago began serving ads inside Tales to monetise content material.