Location sharing has become a very important feature in people’s daily lives, which can show friends and family where you are and even be a warning sign if something dangerous is happening. However, while many rely on existing features in apps such as Uber, WhatsApp and a few others, we can do so directly from the Android system through Google Maps.

If you can’t rely on these third-party apps, here we’ll explain a step-by-step guide that will allow you to share your location safely and without too much bureaucracy. It also saves you from having to download software just for this, like Life360. After all, why use someone else’s system when your own cell phone is capable of performing the same function straight from the factory?

Using Google Maps to share location

The steps are simple and you can easily follow them by reading this text. Let’s also follow each of them with fingerprints so you don’t get lost and hit other features and it’s worth remembering that you need to be with Location option active on your smartphone or tablet for everything to work properly.

1 – Activate Location option on your device;

two – on your smartphoneopen Google Maps;

3- As soon as it opens click on your profile picture which is located in the upper right corner;

4 – choose an option Share location;

5 – Click on the blue button Share location confirm function;

6- choose by how much time want your location to be visible and also choose which contacts to send

After all, you can let your location be available for 1 hour, or until it’s manually deactivated, depending on the type of situation you’re in, this can help a lot during difficult times. It’s also worth noting that it’s interesting that your smartphone must remain connected via the Internet, either via Wi-Fi or via 3G/4G/5G, in order for people to follow the movement during the period.

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Source: Google Maps.

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