Google Maps Just got a magnificent feature of sharing Real-Time location

Sharing your location with someone can be a really useful way to help find each other.

Now, Google Maps is adding a new form of location sharing Feature: notifications to let you know when a contact has arrived at or departed from a specific address.

Is Google Maps location sharing safe?

In old Version, Someone could use Google Maps to spy on others and abuse the sharing location feature but the good news is that Google has just released a feature that can help to alert you "that you might be sharing your location with people who should no longer have access to such data. The way location sharing works is that you can set it up when you needed it. The notification make you realize that you’re sharing your location with people who should not have continued access to your whereabouts and remind you to check who has access to your settings. Google says it will serve up plenty of reminders, through notifications and emails, to let users know they are sharing their location with others. That way you’ll be reminded to turn location sharing off once you no longer need to be using it.

To use this feature, you’ll first need to be sharing your location with someone, After that, you can open up a location you’re all planning to meet at, like some place ( garden, restaurant, etc), in Google Maps, and ask the app to notify you when each of those friends arrives, and this could also be a useful feature to let parents know when their children are, have arrived at school or returned home, etc.

A recent leak revealed that Apple is building such a tool in iOS 14 that can tell you an unknown tracker is moving with you and then it would block it automatically.

For more details stay tuned!