Sharing live location
Live Location allows you to share your real-time location with your friends or in groups.
You can set the duration of sharing and stop at any time you like. Once you stop sharing or time has expired, you will no longer be sharing your live location. Moreover, only the groups or friends you are sharing with can see your live location. While sharing, distances away, speeds and the altitudes will be shown for each person.
To start sharing live location
Go to Chat view, tap “+” > “Location” > “Share Live Location” > Select the length of time
Your live location will stop being shared after the selected amount of time.
You will see a flashing green icon when you are sharing the live location.
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You can select the sharing duration from 1 hour to 24 hours. If you want to extend the time while sharing, tap the flashing green sharing icon > “Extend Sharing Time” > select time. The selected time will be added on top to the remaining time.
When you are sharing your live location, you will see a flashing icon at the lower right corner inside the chat view.
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When you are not sharing your live location while the others do, you will see another flashing icon at the lower right corner inside the chat view.
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On the map view, you can see the thumbnail images of people who are sharing their live locations together with a trail of their location in the last 3 minutes. You can tap the image to focus on that particular person. Last updated information will be shown.
To keep sharing live location, you need to allow access to location permissions and keep OpusChat running in the background. See Required settings for live location
To stop sharing live location
On the map view, tap the flashing green sharing icon > “Stop Sharing”