The Live Location blog
Plain-English guides to sharing your location in real time — safely and privately — written to answer the questions people actually search for.
The My Location App: Background Live Location Sharing That Keeps Running A browser tab stops moving the moment your screen sleeps. The My Location app keeps the same private, auto-expiring link updating in the background — so the person following you never watches a frozen dot. Here is how the app extends what livelocation.app already does on the web.
Live Location Not Updating? How to Fix It on iPhone and Android Your shared dot froze and someone is waiting. The in-order checklist for live location not updating on iPhone and Android — precise location, battery saver, background refresh — plus when a clean browser share wins.
Meet in the Middle: How to Find a Fair Halfway Point to Meet Where should two people actually meet? The exact middle is rarely the fair one. Here is how to find a halfway point that balances travel time, not just distance, choose a real venue near it, and send one shared pin everyone can open and navigate to in a tap.
How to Share Your Location From iPhone to Android (and Back) Find My only works between iPhones, and Android has no built-in counterpart, so mixed-device groups get stuck. Here are the cross-platform ways to share your location both directions — including a no-account browser link that needs no app on either phone.
How to Share Your Live Location Safely (and Stop When You're Done) A step-by-step guide to sharing your live location the safe way — a private link, the right recipient, a sensible expiry, and a clean stop when you arrive — plus when a static snapshot is the smarter, smaller choice.
"On My Way": How to Share Your ETA and Live Location While Driving "On my way" never answers the only question that matters: when, exactly? Hand whoever's waiting a live link they can glance at. Here's how to set it up parked, what the watcher sees, ETA vs the raw dot, and how to make it expire the moment you arrive.
If You Stop Sharing Your Location, Does the Other Person Get Notified? A clear, honest answer to a top People-Also-Ask question: stopping a location share usually sends no push notification, but it isn't fully invisible. See exactly what the other person sees on iMessage, Google Maps, and a share link — and why an expiring link ends the worry for good.
How to Find Your Friends in a Crowd at a Festival or Concert Crowds break the two things you normally use to find people: you can't see over heads and your phone can't get a message out. Here's the two-layer plan — a live location dot plus a fixed meeting-point fallback — to regroup fast at any festival, concert, or fair.
How to Share Your Live Location With a QR Code A QR code is just an encoded link, so what you put inside it decides everything. Here is how to make a location QR that points at a live, moving share instead of a dead map pin, the step-by-step method with a worked example, and why an auto-expiring capability link makes a printed code safe to post.
WhatsApp vs Google Maps vs a Link: Which Location Share Is Best? Three ways to share where you are, three very different trade-offs. We compare WhatsApp, Google Maps, and a no-account browser link head-to-head — sharing duration, what each reveals about you, and whether the person on the other end even needs an app — so you can pick the leanest one.
Shared Location Showing the Wrong Place or Jumping Around? Fix It Your dot is alive and updating, it's just in the wrong place or teleporting across town. That's an accuracy problem, not a connection one. Here's why Wi-Fi positioning, approximate location, and indoor multipath place your dot wrong, and how to get an honest, high-accuracy share on iPhone and Android.
Location Sharing for Families: How to Do It Safely Knowing your people got home should be a relief, not surveillance. Here’s how families can share locations safely — live links vs apps, consent, expiry, and what kids and elders actually see — so it stays caring instead of controlling.
Does Sharing Your Location Drain Your Battery (and Data)? Worried sharing your location will flatten your phone or eat your data? It barely does. Here are realistic figures, the real culprits behind battery drain, and the settings that keep a short, expiring share cheap.
Is Live Location Sharing Safe? What to Know You’re about to send someone your live location and a voice asks: is this actually safe? Here’s how live links really work, the risks worth knowing, the habits that keep you in control, and why an ephemeral, anonymous share exposes far less than always-on tracking.
How to Send Someone Your Exact Location in 10 Seconds Skip the cross-streets and send a spot people can tap. A fast, practical guide to sharing your exact location in about ten seconds — snapshot link vs live link, on phone or computer, copying raw coordinates, and exactly what the recipient sees.