Snapchat Can Automatically Let A Trusted Friend Know You Got Home Safe

Snapchat tin now fto your friends cognize if you're backmost location from an outing safe and sound without you having to nonstop a message. The app has launched a caller characteristic called Home Safe, which sends one-time alerts to contacts of your choice. You tin only nonstop these alerts to group you already stock your location with, and since that disconnected by default, you'd person to activate it connected Snap Maps for each your friends aliases for circumstantial ones. Your friends will only get nan notification once, and it will unopen disconnected afterward.

Home Safe sounds particularly useful if you and your friends typically cheque successful connected each different aft gathering up, if you want to fto your parents cognize you'd gotten backmost location aft going retired aliases if you're a female who's asked a friend to make judge you sewage backmost safe aft a first date. To move nan characteristic on, pat your Bitmoji connected nan Snap Map and past "My Home" to group your location location. After that, whenever you want to nonstop personification a notification, conscionable unfastened your speech pinch then, pat connected nan Map icon and past pat nan "Home Safe" button.

The app has had location sharing for a while now, but it has built up nan information characteristic complete nan years. It added unrecorded location sharing that allows you to stock your nonstop whereabouts to friends successful 2022. And past year, it introduced caller location search abilities to its Family Center, allowing parents to get notifications if their kid leaves schoolhouse aliases home.

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