Still, it’s sure better than having the app incessantly broadcast your location with no timer involved to turn it off. Note that that’s 8x the one hour you get with location-sharing from apps such as Messenger and those on Apple iOS and Google Android.Ī quibble: that’s a lot longer to be beaming about your location – and quite possibly forgetting that you’re doing so. Snapchat will make your location disappear after 8 hours.
If you went ahead and opted in to share your location and then forgotten all about the choice, the clock starts ticking. A spokesperson said that if you’ve never opened Map, your location won’t show up. Snap Map will not show a user’s location otherwise. Plus, if a Snapchatter does opt in to share their location with all of their friends on Snapchat, the app will periodically remind them of that choice to make sure they’re still comfortable with it.
Snapchat will only post your location on Snap Map every time you open the app if in fact you’ve enabled Map to share your location with friends. Well, not quite: I heard from Snap after initially publishing this story, and it turns out I wasn’t giving credit where credit’s due. …or having their privacy breached and their location leaked because they didn’t realize that Snap posts their location on Snap Map every time they open the app. Snapchat has introduced a “whole new way!” (maybe new to Snap: not to Facebook, Apple and Google) for you to “explore the world” and “meet up with friends”: a location-sharing “Snap Map” that shows when nearby friends are…
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