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TL;DR
- Google has started rolling out real-time location sharing to Google Messages users.
- The feature was announced earlier this month and lets you (surprise) share your live location with contacts.
- You can choose to share your live location for an hour, a day, a custom time period, or indefinitely.
We discovered real-time location sharing in Google Messages a while back, and exclusively showed you how it would work last month. Google had since announced this feature as part of its March 2026 Android updates. It’s taken a while, but the feature is finally rolling out to some users.
Several Redditors and 9to5Google report that real-time location sharing is now available in Google Messages. We can confirm that the feature is available on our phones. Check out the screenshots below.
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