While you can share your location for just an hour or until the end of the day, it's pretty easy to share it indefinitely and forget you did so. Depending on how you shared your location, however, they might still be able to track your exact coordinates after the initial share. By doing so, they can track you when you can't or don't want to update them manually.
Note: This tip works best on an iPhone, as it has a built-in GPS radio, however this will also work on the iPad and iPod touch, although with less accuracy, due to the way they estimate their location via Wi-Fi.Sharing your iPhone's real-time location can be very useful when you want family and friends to know where you're at or your estimated time of arrival. While sending your location is a one time thing, find out here how to share location on iPhone for extended period of time. You’ll find this is a great way to supply your location to your friends or family, even if you’re in an unfamiliar area. If the recipient has an earlier version of iOS, or they have an Android or other device, they’ll be supplied with a link to tap and open in their device’s Maps app. They can then tap the map to gain access to more options, such as getting directions to the location. If the recipient has an iOS device running iOS 8 or newer, they will instantly see a map showing your location. (And yes, in the screenshots above, I sent this to myself.
Location sharing in Messages allows you to send your location to another party, and they can then open the location up in Apple Maps, or if they’re on an Android device, open it in Google Maps. Luckily, my iPhone can tell them exactly where to find me.īy using the Messages app on your iOS device, you can send your exact location to someone, who can then open your location up and get turn-by-turn directions where to meet you. If you’re like I am, you can take someone directly where you want to go, but if I have to give them turn-by-turn directions to follow to pick me up somewhere, forget about it.
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