Snapchat Rolls Out New Live Location Security Feature

Snapchat is rolling out a brand new security function to its Snap Map that enables customers to share their real-time location with their pals.

Dubbed Live Location, the function doesn’t want the app to be open to transmit your location, however it does require a two-way friendship. Snap Inc. states that privateness is a crucial issue to Live Location and has enacted a number of safety features to make sure consumer security.

Sharing your location has been a function on Snap Map since 2017, however it was by no means real-time and solely gave a basic space as a substitute of an actual place. Plus, it required the app to be open. With Live Location, you’ll be able to stuff your telephone in your pocket or purse whereas transmitting your location.

By default, Live Location will probably be off, and there will probably be no strategy to broadcast your location to the broader space, as sharing your whereabouts is restricted to mutually added pals. And previous to utilizing Live Location, Snapchat will enact a tutorial educating you use the brand new function and configure its settings.

According to Yahoo! Finance and Snap Inc, the placement tracker seems to have a set timer from a minimal of quarter-hour to a most of eight hours. The announcement additionally factors out that Snaps shared between pals and “sensitive locations” will keep personal.

Live Location is the results of a partnership with It’s On Us, a non-profit group based in 2014 that’s dedicated to preventing sexual assault on faculty campuses.

Snapchat encourages folks to learn its help web page for extra information about Live Location and welcomes any suggestions that would assist enhance the function.