How To Share Live Location In Imessage On Iphone Ipad Mac

In this guide, we will take a look at how you can share your current location in iMessage with your friends or family. By default, iMessage shares your location curated from Apple Maps, however, you can also utilize the Google Maps location-sharing capabilities with iMessages. We will take a look at both methods later in this guide. Let’s dive right into the methods.

First things first, you need to turn on location sharing inside the iMessage settings. If you are sharing the location for the first time, then the app will prompt you with location sharing privacy settings, in case you disabled the setting in the past, you need to enable it manually, here are the steps you can follow to enable location sharing.

The steps are different on Mac; you can easily turn on location sharing on your MacBook or iMac. Simply follow these steps.

With the Location Services enabled, you can easily share your current location in iMessage with your friends and family. There are multiple ways to share location in iMessage on iPhone and iPad, let’s take a look at the first method.

Before moving ahead, make sure you install the Google Maps app on your iPhone or iPad. The app is freely available on the App Store. Grant the location access to the app in the Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services > Google Maps. If the app is already available on your iPhone, you can follow these steps to share your current location using Google Maps. When you share your location using Google Maps, the recipient will be able to view your current location for 1 hour. You can stop sharing location easily when you want by pressing the stop button.

The steps of sharing live location are not the same as for iPad or iPhone, you can follow the below steps to share your current location in iMessage on Mac.

You can change the current location settings easily after sharing the live location in Messages. Here’s how you can stop sharing location.

You can always request location sharing to your friends or family in Messages, you can do it easily by opening the conversation, then tap the + icon and select location, tapping the request button, it will notify the recipient. Once granted access, you will get access to the live location. If you still have any queries on sharing live location in iMessage, then leave a comment in the comment box. Also, share this article with your friends.

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