WhatsApp announced this week that you’ll be able to share your location in real time with friends on your contact list, a popular feature borrowed from its parent company Facebook.
The feature, called Live Location, should be available now and is coming to both the iOS and Android versions of WhatsApp.
Facebook officially rolled out temporary location sharing in Messenger back in May, having experimented with the idea in different formats within Messenger and the main Facebook app for years.
To use Live Location, you open a chat with a person or group. Under “Location” in the attach button, tap “Share Live Location.”
You can set a timer for how long you want to share your location, and everyone you’ve chosen to send your location to can see where you are on a map in real time.
The feature also works if multiple people share locations simultaneously, as people’s icons will then appear on the same map.
