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 characteristic, 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 satisfy up or when they’re going residence alongside at evening. Nonetheless, dwell location sharing is completely different from the common location sharing on Snapchat that’s out there by way of the built-in Snap Map since 2017.

With the brand new location sharing characteristic, customers on Snapchat can share their dwell location updates with buddies for a interval between quarter-hour and as much as eight hours. The characteristic works solely between buddies on a person foundation. Because of this your dwell location won’t be seen to your complete group on the platform and can solely be shared with the buddy who you’ve got chosen from the app.

You and your buddy should even have to simply accept one another as buddies on Snapchat earlier than sharing your dwell location. Additional, Snapchat exhibits a pop-up window when a consumer accesses the dwell location characteristic 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 on account of real-time location sharing.

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

How you can share dwell location on Snapchat

You’ll be able to share your dwell location on Snapchat by going to the profile of considered one of your pals with whom you wish to share your location in actual time. As soon as you’ve got opened your buddy’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’ll be able to faucet Sounds good! to go forward after which choose the timeframe for which you need your dwell location to be shared along with your buddy.

Because the characteristic 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 directly.

When sharing your dwell location with a buddy, they may 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 present Snap Map that was launched again in June 2017 the place you’ll be able to opt-in to share your location with your pals on the idea of your choice, equivalent to all buddies and chosen ones.

Snap Map, nonetheless, solely updates location data when customers have the app open. This is not the case with the brand new characteristic as it’s going to proceed to indicate your dwell location for the pre-selected time.

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

Snapchat mother or father Snap mentioned that it designed the brand new location sharing characteristic on the idea of group suggestions about how individuals are utilizing Snap Map with their buddies. Additionally it is part of a broader partnership with US non-profit ‘It is On US’ that goals to fight campus sexual assault by way of consciousness and prevention training programmes.

From immediately, Snap can even be publishing a brand new public service announcement (PSA) inside the Snapchat app “on growing bystander consciousness” to assist individuals restrict instances together with sexual assault.

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