WhatsApp is a cross-platform instant messaging and voice calling app for smartphones. Therefore, the platform also allows users to upload images, videos and files. In addition to being able to make free calls when connected to the Internet. The app is therefore available for most mobile phones these days. However, another feature present in the platform is sharing the location with third parties. However, many people still don’t know how to use the feature.
So, take a look below at how to track someone’s location via the app.
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Many people still don’t know this, but it is possible to track people via WhatsApp, both via Android and iOS phones. Tracking down someone can be very simple and, first of all, the other person must be connected to the internet. In addition, the mobile phone sharing the location must also allow the application to access the GPS. Therefore, each WhatsApp user can choose to share their location with another contact and it is possible to choose three times when tracking will be available, which can be eight hours, one hour or fifteen minutes. This way, anyone who receives the tracking message can have access to the other person’s location in real time.
To go through the process and allow someone else to track your location, follow the steps below.
No Android
- First, you need to open the WhatsApp conversation with the person you want to share your location with;
- Then tap on the icon represented by a paperclip and then on the position;
- Now you have to choose the option “Position in real time” and then “Continue”;
- Finally, your location will be available in the conversation chat with a Maps board. With this, the sender simply taps the image to access its location.
No iOS
- On iPhone, you will have to open the conversation and tap the “+” icon;
- Therefore, you need to click on the location;
- Therefore, you can select the time you want to share the information;
- Finally, submit your location via the icon represented by an arrow and the other person will be able to track your location.
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WhatsApp was created in 2009 by Yahoo veterans Brian Acton and Jan Koum. Therefore, the headquarters are located in the city of Santa Clara, California. Thus, in 2012 alone, the application went from two billion messages per day in April to ten billion messages per day in August of the same year.
Additionally, the app is currently part of the Meta group, which also runs Facebook and Instagram. With this, the company has added several new functions to the application in recent years, through its team of experts, who have worked to improve the functionality of the platform.
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