Thanks to the power of technology and the availability of GPS-based services, tracking someone’s live location is a useful feature for various purposes, such as ensuring safety during trips or coordinating meetups efficiently.
Google Maps, one of the most popular navigation apps, offers a simple and effective way to track your friends’ live locations.
In this blog, we’ll guide you through the detailed process of how to do just that, including requesting location from your friends.
Before you can begin tracking your friends’ live locations, ensure that you have Google Maps installed on your smartphone.
The app is available for both Android and iOS devices and can be downloaded from their respective app stores.
Once you have the latest version of Google Maps installed on your smartphone, follow the below steps to successfully track friends’ live locations.
To track someone’s live location, you need to enable location services on your device and ensure your friends do the same. Here’s how to do it:
Android Users:
iOS Users:
Before you can track someone, you need to request their live location.
You can send a location-sharing request after you share your own location with them.
Here’s how to do it:
Once you’ve sent a location request to your friend, they’ll receive a notification or an email invite.
Here’s what they need to do:
Once your friend accepts the location request, you can begin tracking their live location:
If you want to stop sharing your location or end the tracking session, follow these steps:
Always share your location only with people you trust, and remember that you have control over how long you share your location.
Additionally, you can stop sharing at any time to protect your privacy further.
Answer. To hide someone on Google Maps, follow these steps:
Answer. You now have more ways to control your privacy on Google Maps. Use Incognito mode when you don’t want your activity—like the places you search for or navigate to—to be saved to your Google Account.
Answer. Here’s the step-by-step breakdown of how to hide your address in Google My Business.
Answer: To save offline maps in Google Maps, follow these steps:
These offline maps will be available for navigation when you’re not connected to the internet.
Answer: To set Google Maps as your default navigation app, go to your phone’s settings. Navigate to “Apps” or “Applications,” find the current default navigation app, and select “Clear Defaults.” The next time you use a navigation link or app, it will prompt you to choose a default, where you can select Google Maps.
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