Google Maps is great for helping you find your way — or even helping you find your car — but the app can also help other people find you.
Maps has an easily overlooked feature for sharing your real-time whereabouts with someone so they can see exactly where you are, even if you’re moving, and then navigate to your location. You can use the same feature to let a trusted person keep tabs on your travel progress to a particular place and know precisely when you’re set to arrive.
The best part? It’s all incredibly simple to do. The trick is knowing where to look.
When you want someone to be able to track your location:
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You can choose how long you want to share your location
To manually stop Maps from sharing your location:
When you want someone to be able to see your location and estimated arrival time while you’re en route to a particular destination:
GRID VIEW
Once you’ve started a trip, you can share your progress with a friend. Open the Maps app, and start navigating to your destination
If you want to stop sharing your progress before your trip is complete:
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