Snapchat Will Notify Your Friends When You’ve Made It Home Safe

Now your friends don’t person to show your unrecorded location information successful Snap Maps.

Snapchat is launching a caller Home Safe characteristic that makes it easier to pass your loved ones erstwhile you person arrived safely aft making your measurement home. Building connected nan app’s existing location capabilities, Snapchat’s Home Safe allows you to nonstop an automatic alert to chat conversations pinch friends to fto them cognize you’re backmost astatine location without having to retrieve to nonstop direct messages.

While galore communications apps for illustration Snapchat, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger alteration you to share unrecorded location information that others tin track, nan Home Safe alerts mean that your friends don’t request to support checking connected your progress. Snap says that nan notification only goes retired erstwhile and past shuts disconnected automatically. The alerts tin only beryllium sent to friends that Snapchat users are already sharing their location with, which allows users to proactively prime precisely who they want to nonstop nan Home Safe alerts to.

To entree nan feature, users request to group their location location connected Snap Map by tapping connected their Bitmoji and past selecting “My Home.” Once nan location is set, users tin past pat connected nan Map icon successful their conversations and prime nan “Home Safe” fastener erstwhile starting to make nan travel backmost home. Alerts will past beryllium sent retired erstwhile nan app registers that nan personification has arrived astatine their location destination.