That WhatsApp has become the default communication application in countries such as Spain can be seen as something positive or negative, depending on what is analyzed, but what cannot be denied is that It’s very comfortable. It is almost unthinkable that someone does not use it, so we will always know that we can contact someone, in our personal or work life, through this app.
It is one of the biggest differences with other applications, such as Telegram, although the latter is also increasing the number of users in our country. But WhatsApp has functions that make it compete even with other apps that are not messaging, such as Share the location with our contacts.
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Google Maps is one of the few applications that can rival the goal application As for users’ basis, since Google reinstates it in the Android mobiles of the main brands (Xiaomi, Samsung, Oppo, Realme, alive …). In addition, it is good enough for users to use it.
Sending the position
Both applications have different functions, being WhatsApp designed to be able to send messages and communicate and Google Maps to know how to get to a place and discover places and businesses. But there are some functions that share.
The most important is what allows Share the location with the person we want. It is something that can be done in many apps, but these two are the most important. WhatsApp is the default app for this, because it is constantly used and it is comfortable to share this information with someone from the chat itself.
Share location on Google Maps
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The point is that Google Maps also allows you to share the location with any user we have on the agenda, through your gmail email, or by any other app. And being integrated into the navigation app itself, the information of the route, or of the distance, is much more precise. In WhatsApp sometimes we have to wait for the exact position to be updated.
As if that were not enough, It is possible to know the amount of battery left to the mobile of our contactbeing able to take that into account if at some point we stop receiving the signal, or if the phone does not take us when we call. We will also know if the mobile is loading, Your departure time and arrival time.
Google Maps location
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To be able to share the location on Google Maps what you have to do is click on the blue icon that marks our own position and click on Share location. From there we can select the Gmail account to which we want to send it. However, it is important to highlight that, As we have said, It is also possible to share this link with any other app. That is, we can share the location via Google Maps and send the link to WhatsApp. In this way it will be in the chat of the conversation but we will use Google’s service.
Once done that we just have to limit the time we want to share the location, changing the hours or Well always leave it activein case we want to know, for example, where our children are on a trip with the school. While it is active we will have a notice within Google Maps, so that no one activates it on our mobile without our consent.
