WhatsApp to allow Sharing your Location in real time with ‘Live Location’ feature

WhatsApp Messenger with over a 200 million monthly active users in India, has reinvented time and again what an instant messaging platform can do. Adding to the list of its features is now a new one dubbed- Live Location Share. The feature allows you to share your location in real-time with family or friends. It is a simple and secure way to let people know where you are.

The said feature is end-to-end encrypted and lets you control who you share your location with and for how long. One can choose to stop sharing at any time or let the Live Location timers simply expire. The company quoted that the new feature will be available on both the Operating Systems- iOS, Android and would be rolling out on the app in the coming weeks.

To access the feature, Open a WhatsApp chat on Android /iOS, with the person or group you want to share location with. Under ‘Location’ in the attach button, there will be a new option to ‘Share Live Location.’ Choose for how long you want to share and tap send. Make sure your phone’s GPS is enabled. The minimum time for which one can share location with a selected contact is 15 min. The other two options of 1 hour and 8 hours are also available. Each person in the group chat would be able to see one’s real-time location on a map and if more than one person shares their Live Location in the group, all locations would be visible on the same map.

While this new feature can prove to be useful in various ways for simple access- whether you're meeting up with friends, letting loved ones know you're safe, or sharing your commute; it shouldn’t turn into yet another snooping app all in the name of safety. The 'Live Location' feature comes as a second major update by the company after it launched its #-Link-Snipped-#earlier this month.

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