Sharing where you are, with one person
Share your location with one chosen person, for an hour or for good, and stop it in one press.
Sharing your location sends where your phone is now to one named person, over and over, for as long as it is switched on.
That is worth reading twice, because it is narrower than it sounds. It is not a record of everywhere you have been, and nobody is handed a history. It is a dot on a map that answers one question — where are you at this moment — and it answers it only for the person you chose, and only while you are sharing.
Which is why stopping it works the way it does. There is nothing to delete and nothing to claw back: the moment you switch it off, the dot goes, because the dot was never stored anywhere. That is the difference between this and almost everything else you are warned about online.
Key points
- Share your location with one chosen person, for an hour or indefinitely
- Stop any of it in one press, from a row that is always in the same place
- Offer it in both directions, which is a different arrangement entirely
What to remember
- Sharing your location is a per-person decision, and it can be stopped from the same screen in one press.
- Where do you sit with this one?
- Sharing is yours to end, in one press, without a word to anybody.
Try this
Suggest to one person that you share with each other rather than one of you with the other. An arrangement that goes both ways is a different thing from one that goes in one, and it is usually the version everybody is comfortable with.
Practice: Sharing where you are, with one person. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.