Snapchat on Friday launched Momentary Dwell Location on its platform to let customers share their reside location with mates. The brand new function, which is rolling out to all Snapchat customers globally, will let customers share their real-time whereabouts with mates to allow them to know that they’re en-route to satisfy up or when they’re going residence alongside at night time. Nonetheless, reside location sharing is totally different from the common location sharing on Snapchat that’s obtainable via the built-in Snap Map since 2017.
With the brand new location sharing function, customers on Snapchat can share their reside location updates with mates for a interval between quarter-hour and as much as eight hours. The function works solely between mates on a person foundation. Which means that your reside location is not going to be seen to your entire neighborhood on the platform and can solely be shared with the buddy who you might have chosen from the app.
You and your buddy should even have to simply accept one another as mates on Snapchat earlier than sharing your reside location. Additional, Snapchat exhibits a pop-up window when a person accesses the reside location function for the primary time. It basically reminds customers that the reside location is supposed particularly for shut family and friends. The aim right here is to keep away from privateness points that might emerge on account of real-time location sharing.
The Momentary Dwell Location Sharing function is rolling out globally on Friday throughout Android and iOS.
Tips on how to share reside location on Snapchat
You possibly can share your reside location on Snapchat by going to the profile of one in every of your folks with whom you wish to share your location in actual time. As soon as you’ve got opened your buddy’s profile, scroll right down to see the Share My Dwell Location choice.
Snapchat will now present you a pop-up to tell you in regards to the function. You possibly can faucet Sounds good! to go forward after which choose the time-frame for which you need your reside location to be shared together with your buddy.
For the reason that function works solely between mates on a person foundation, there is no such thing as a choice to allow you to share your reside location with a number of mates directly.
When sharing your reside location with a buddy, they may see your Bitmoji with a particular ‘LIVE’ icon. The icon will, although, not be seen to others on the app.
The Momentary Dwell Location function on Snapchat comes as an extension of the prevailing Snap Map that was launched again in June 2017 the place you’ll be able to opt-in to share your location with your folks on the idea of your choice, akin to all mates and chosen ones.
Snap Map, nevertheless, solely updates location data when customers have the app open. This is not the case with the brand new function as it’ll proceed to point out your reside location for the pre-selected time.
Total, the Momentary Dwell Location function on Snapchat works much like how one can share your live location with your contacts on WhatsApp.
Snapchat mum or dad Snap stated that it designed the brand new location sharing function on the idea of neighborhood suggestions about how persons are utilizing Snap Map with their mates. Additionally it is part of a broader partnership with US non-profit ‘It is On US’ that goals to fight campus sexual assault via consciousness and prevention schooling programmes.
From at present, Snap may even be publishing a brand new public service announcement (PSA) inside the Snapchat app “on rising bystander consciousness” to assist folks restrict circumstances together with sexual assault.
Final yr, Snapchat revamped Snap Map with Explore and Memories Layers to boost the location-based experiences on its platform. It additionally not too long ago began serving advertisements inside Tales to monetise content material.
