Google's Find My Device app can now show your contacts’ real-time locations

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Google’s replace to the Discover My Machine app, which provides a “Individuals” tab exhibiting contacts who’ve shared their location with you (and vice versa), is now accessible for Android customers. The corporate announced the feature at the start of the month with the March Pixel Drop, and it began rolling out this week, as noticed by 9to5Google. With the replace, now you can see your authorised contacts’ real-time areas on the map, above an inventory that shows the addresses of their present positions, their distance from you and the time since that data was final refreshed.

Whereas Google Maps already let customers handle location sharing and maintain monitor of trusted contacts, the Discover My Machine replace makes all this data simpler to search out, with a extra simple presentation. Within the Individuals tab, you possibly can select to see the contacts who’ve shared their location with you, and people you’ve shared your location with. You can too swap Google accounts and alter your Location Sharing settings at any time from throughout the app utilizing the tab on the prime proper. The replace comes virtually a 12 months after Google first launched Find My Device, and brings the service extra according to Apple’s Find My app.

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