Whatsapp allows you to share your location in real time

WhatsApp continues to introduce news. For a few months, it was rumored that the option to share our location in real time was going to reach the application. Finally, it seems that these rumors were true. The application introduces this novelty in its next update. It is now possible to share our location in real time.

WhatsApp allows you to share your location in real time

This function that WhatsApp presents now seems like a response to Telegram, which presented this same function a week ago in its update. Although this variant of WhatsApp has some differences with the one that Telegram has launched. So it is not really a copy.

Real-time location

The idea of ​​the application is to be able to track contacts in real time. So if your friends have this option activated, you can see where they are at all times. This new function comes under the name of WhatsApp Live Location. It will allow us to configure a series of parameters so that we decide how to share our location in real time.

We can decide how long we want it to be available, up to 8 hours maximum. Although we can always stop sharing it whenever we want. To ensure that this new feature is secure, WhatsApp introduces end-to-end encryption. So users don't have to worry about their location ending up in the wrong hands.

To activate this function you have to go to a conversation in the application and in the option to attach you have to select location and then location in real time. This function is already available for the beta version of WhatsApp. Its final version will arrive soon. What do you think of this new function of the application?