How To Quickly Share Your Location On Google Maps

As Google Maps helps people in getting new directions it also affords them a way to share their locations and directions with other people. 

With Google Maps you can not only share your real-time location but also allows you to select a specific place on Maps whenever you want to have a meeting with friends and share with them so that they can meet up without missing the direction. 

Key Takeaway 

You can share your live location, address, and business from Google Maps via SMS, email, or social media platforms. 

You can also use Google Maps to share marked and unmarked locations with people from different places to attend a particular session. 

How to share your real-time location on Google Maps

Real-time location is a precise zone where you can be located. Once you shared it with people they can open the link through Google Maps to track down your location and may have seen your name, photos, and where you have recently been as long as sharing period has not expired. 

Quick Tip: You can terminate sharing your location with someone you already passed on or turn off location access on your device settings to temporarily stop all location sharing. 

Here are the steps for sending your live location and directions from Maps: 

1. Open the Google Maps app on your phone device. 

2. Tap your Google account profile picture or initials at the top right corner. 

3. Tap location sharing in the drop-down menu. 

4. Tap share location. 

5. Choose the time frame for sharing, you can adjust it by tapping plus and minus signs (you can choose from 15 minutes up to 24 hours), or select the second option (until you turn this off).

6. Select the people to share with. 

7. You can send your directions via text or email or through social media platforms or copy them to a clipboard and paste the link somewhere. 

Tap "nearby share" to share with nearby phone devices. 

Once done, a receiver will get your notification titled "See my real-time location on Maps" 

How to share a particular location on Google Maps 

You can easily send invitations for some occasions that you are going to hold. Google Maps helps to achieve this task smoothly by sending an invitation card together with sharing the meeting point with people which they can easily navigate from the Maps. These include holding an emergency meeting with official members, arranging a session with ex-schoolmates, holding a sent-forth dinner, and many activities that gather people from different destinations, once you took this step you help them to seamlessly get into the direction. You can share both marked and unmarked places on Google with them. Follow me in the following steps to learn how to share a specific location or directions on Google Maps: 

1. Open your Google Maps app on your mobile device. 

2. Navigate to the location you want to share. 

3. Long press your finger on the area. 

4. Tap "Share" at the bottom of the screen. 

5. Select the names or email addresses you want to share with or choose to send it through social media platforms, or nearby devices. 

How do I stop Google Maps from Sharing my live location 

After you share your location with someone, and you no longer wanted it, you can stop sharing from Maps or simply turn off the location access on your phone device and a targeted recipient can not have access to your live location.

To stop sharing your real-time location open the Maps app > and tap your Google account profile picture, then tap location sharing. 

Tap "Sharing via link" at the bottom of your screen. 

Tap "Stop" on the right side. 

What are the benefits of sharing location on Google Maps 

1. Seamless ways of inviting people to a particular occasion. 
2. Provide people with precise information about the meeting point. 
3. People can urgently share their real-time location in case of emergency. 
4. Reduce the stress of accessing unknown directions. 
5. Helps people to regularly update their family and friends with their current location. 

Conclusion 

Over the decades, many people took advantage of this free tool to instantly meet with family and friends and now almost all recent smartphones come with Google Maps pre-installed to help users share their live locations with family and friends. We concluded by saying this tool is safe for all users. 

Related resources: 

• How to use Google Maps to get directions and locations 
• Steps to add your business profile on Maps