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My partner and are are sometimes in the position of trying to find each other in a large or crowded space (like a convention center, or if one of us is driving to pick up the other somewhere). We ...
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Monica Cellio
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2023-07-03T19:02:06Z (over 1 year ago)
How can I transmit my current location to someone else's phone?
My partner and are are sometimes in the position of trying to find each other in a large or crowded space (like a convention center, or if one of us is driving to pick up the other somewhere). We both have phones; it would be great if I could have mine send my location to his (or vice versa) so that the other person could see it in the map app. We don't want always-on tracking like the location tracking that parents do for children's phones; we want to be able to do one-time transmissions or otherwise turn it on and off. I'm using Android 13 on a Pixel and he's using the current iOS version on an iPhone. We're each using the "native" mapping apps (Google Maps for me, and whatever the Apple default is for him). Is there a way to accomplish this, preferably with the apps we're already using? Third-party apps aren't out of the question but aren't the first choice; we're both pretty security-minded and every new/unknown app is a potential malware vector.