You’re not restricted to people in your Google contacts list. I created the perfect iPhone home screen - and you can too Your Pixel 7 is about to get a whole lot less buggy - here’s why One of last year’s most luxurious smartwatches finally has Wear OS 3 And if you opt for the latter, you’ll receive an email every two or three weeks to remind you that it’s on. You can broadcast your whereabouts for a set period of time (between 15 minutes and 3 days) or indefinitely. Within Maps, touching the blue “Share location” icon via the app’s side menu will serve up a menu from which you can specify with whom you want to share your location. In other words, you likely know a friend who’s used it once or twice.Īnd sharing your location with that friend is now as simple as a tap. With close to 95 million users (according to ComScore), Maps is Google’s most-used app after YouTube and the fourth most used app overall. But there’s something to be said for convenience. And Google’s own Latitudes app, which the search giant retired in 2013, let you share your real-time whereabouts with friends.

Waze boasts location-sharing features, as does Glympse.

And starting today, it’s getting location sharing. It’s packed to the brim with useful features like a speed indicator, turn-by-turn navigation, and parking reminder. Twindesign/123RFWhether your navigating the Adirondacks or tracking down that hip new bar everyone’s talking about, Google Maps has your back.

Google sharing location