Sharing your location in Google Maps is useful for keeping track of family and friends and also offers options to customize how it works, in order to safeguard your privacy, such as the ability to set specific time limits.
At the end of last year, an update of the popular Google application seems to have introduced a bug found by many users and related to the management of the time limits of the sharing of the location, in particular, if you want to keep it active for more than 24 hours.
Google Maps and location sharing issues
Well, the Mountain View giant in recent days has finally recognized this bug, confirming that it is studying it to find a solution and in the meantime offering two possible remedies for users who have found it (the reports on the Net have increased in recent weeks).
The first of the remedies suggested by the Google team is to do the age verification by going here (the recipient of the location-sharing must have a Gmail account). In the event that the first remedy does not have solved the problem, Google recommends a second one:
- Go to the options dedicated to sharing the location
- Activate the time limit switch on “Until you deactivate it”
- Swipe right in the line of people’s suggestions and tap “more”
- At this point, the address book opens with a search bar at the top where you can type a name, a telephone number or an e-mail
- If you know the recipient’s email and it’s a Gmail account, you can enter it here
- Select “Share” and permanent sharing should be set up
The hope is that with the next versions of Google Maps there will also come a definitive solution to this bug.