{"id":370378,"date":"2017-07-26T23:48:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/07\/26\/google-trusted-contacts-ios\/"},"modified":"2017-07-26T23:48:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:48:34","slug":"google-launches-trusted-contacts-location-sharing-app-on-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/google-launches-trusted-contacts-location-sharing-app-on-ios\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Launches &#8216;Trusted Contacts&#8217; Location Sharing App on iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following an Android launch last December, Google recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/maps\/trusted-contacts-now-ios\/\">announced<\/a> that its location sharing app, &#8220;Trusted Contacts,&#8221; is out now on the <a href=\"http:\/\/appshopper.com\/lifestyle\/trusted-contacts\">iOS App Store<\/a> [<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/trusted-contacts\/id1225684042\">Direct Link<\/a>]. The company described the app as a way for users to get together in everyday situations, as well as in emergency scenarios where they can let friends and family know that they&#8217;re safe.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the app is on both Android and iOS, cross-platform location sharing is available so you can keep track of any friends and family members no matter if they own an iPhone or Android smartphone, so long as they&#8217;re also using Trusted Contacts. Similar to the Android app, the iOS app supports offline use, showing those who can see your location where you were last before you went offline.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/07\/google-trusted-contacts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"769\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-577935\"\/><br \/>Google highlighted a few features on the Trusted Contacts App Store page, including integration with Google Maps and its &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/03\/22\/google-maps-location-sharing\/\">Share Location<\/a>&#8221; feature that launched in March:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Add your closest friends and family as trusted contacts.<\/li>\n<li>Allow trusted contacts to request your location. If everything\u2019s fine, you can deny the request. If you\u2019re unable to respond, your last known location is shared automatically within a custom timeframe (works even if you\u2019re offline or your phone is out of battery).<\/li>\n<li>Proactively share your location if you feel unsafe or find yourself in an emergency.<\/li>\n<li>Integration with Google Maps location sharing, so you can easily enable permanent location sharing with selected contacts and find them directly within Google Maps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Location sharing is a popular, and controversial, feature of many apps nowadays. Most recently, Snapchat launched the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/06\/21\/snapchat-snap-map-location-sharing\/\">Snap Map<\/a>,&#8221; which lets users share and update their location on an animated map any time Snapchat is open. Likewise, Facebook Messenger launched &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/03\/27\/facebook-location-sharing\/\">Live Location<\/a>&#8221; earlier this year, letting friends send their location to one another directly within text conversations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following an Android launch last December, Google recently announced that its location sharing app, &#8220;Trusted Contacts,&#8221; is out now on the iOS App Store [Direct Link]. The company described the app as a way for users to get together in everyday situations, as well as in emergency scenarios where they can let friends and family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":370379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-370378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}