You can now share your existent-time location using Google Maps. This also ways y'all can track the location of your friends as they go about their business. Most people will dearest this functionality, only privacy advocates may have some reservations.

To get the most out of modern technology y'all have to give up some of your privacy. So, while it'southward entirely possible to apply it anonymously, allowing Google Maps to come across your location makes it come alive. And Google Maps' latest trick makes that truer than ever...

How to Rails Your Friends Using Google Maps

In March 2017, Google added the ability to share your real-time location in Google Maps. The feature was detailed in a post on The Keyword, with Google explaining how it works. Essentially, you can share your location with friends, and vice versa.

To share your real-time location on Google Maps, first, make sure your Location services are enabled. And so, open Google Maps, and find the blue dot showing where you are. Click that blue dot, and Google Maps volition requite y'all several different options.

Tap, "Share Your Location", and choose how long you want to share your location for. This can be for a certain corporeality of time, or until you turn location sharing off. Then, choose the person or people you desire to share your location with, and click "Share".

Y'all tin can share your location with your Google contacts, or transport a link through your favorite messaging apps. Once you lot take shared your location with a friend or friends, they have the option to reciprocate. Which is how y'all tin rail your friends using Google Maps.

This could exist useful if you lot and your friends are on a nighttime out together or on a trip somewhere. By all sharing your location with each other, you can go on track of everyone in the group, and arrange to meet up in i cardinal location. All through Google Maps.

All the while you're sharing your location with others, you'll see an icon on your own map reminding you you're sharing your location. Google will likewise electronic mail you regular reminders that y'all're sharing your location to make sure yous don't forget.

Turn Google Maps Into a Real-Life Marauder'due south Map

Google addresses whatsoever privacy concerns right upwardly front end, making it articulate that you're always in control of sharing your location. The company has also put various safeguards in place to prevent you from forgetting. However, this is unlikely to appease privacy advocates.

This characteristic turns Google Maps into a real-life Marauder'south Map. Which, for the uninitiated, is a magical map from the Harry Potter series which tracks the location of everyone within Hogwarts. And with that in heed, here are the all-time Harry Potter apps for your phone.

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