Google's Discover My Machine app can now present your contacts’ real-time areas

Google’s replace to the Discover My Machine app, which provides a “Folks” tab exhibiting contacts who’ve shared their location with you (and vice versa), is now out there for Android customers. The corporate announced the feature at first of the month with the March Pixel Drop, and it began rolling out this week, as noticed by 9to5Google. With the replace, now you can see your permitted contacts’ real-time areas on the map, above a listing that shows the addresses of their present positions, their distance from you and the time since that info was final refreshed.

Whereas Google Maps already let customers handle location sharing and maintain monitor of trusted contacts, the Discover My Machine replace makes all this info simpler to seek out, with a extra easy presentation. Within the Folks tab, you may select to see the contacts who’ve shared their location with you, and people you’ve shared your location with. You too can swap Google accounts and alter your Location Sharing settings at any time from inside the app utilizing the tab on the high proper. The replace comes nearly a yr after Google first launched Find My Device, and brings the service extra in step with Apple’s Find My app.

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