Finding People Using the Trusted Contacts App

Do you have a child and are you afraid that he will get lost or something happens to him? Are you traveling to an unfamiliar place and would you like your friends and family to meet you if necessary? Google can help with this.

Using the Trusted Contacts app, you can share your location in real time, either permanently or just for a moment, whichever way your privacy prefers. Today we teach how to use this useful tool.

First, install the app on your smartphone or the smartphone of the person who needs to share the location. For those who follow, it is not mandatory to have the app installed, but work more easily.




Trust Contacts
Install on Google Play

Now follow the steps:

  • Tap First Steps;
  • Tap Continue;
  • Tap on Enable;
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  • Enter your phone number;
  • Enter the activation code you receive by SMS;
  • Let the app access your contacts;
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  • Add the contacts you want;
  • Tap OK
  • Touch the contact you have chosen;
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  • Touch Sharing Settings;
  • Allow the app to access the location;
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  • Choose from "Reply Contact Request" to give the location when that contact asks or "Always Share" so that your location is always visible. You can cancel this later.

If you wish, you can also tap "Send location alert now". You can then tap View or Stop, and the location will be shared for 24 hours if you don't interrupt before.

In the red button below the screen you can choose to share the location later with some contact, being able to choose the time and a message. You can also share the location with your chosen contacts or choose "Alert Contacts Now", which sends your location to all trusted contacts.

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Even if the person does not have the Trusted Contacts app installed, they will receive an email if you give this alert. The same happens when you share your location.

In the three-stroke menu on the side you can add more trusted contacts, and in Setup you can adjust your location in Set up Google location. Touch it and leave Use location enabled.

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Under "Location Requests Time Limit", you decide how long your trusted contacts will have their location when you are not sharing it and they request it. There is also an area of ​​ignored contacts that you never want to give your location to, even if they try to ask.

To track the location

Either you access the email with the information the person passed on, or you go to the Trusted Contacts app installed on your smartphone. There, you can already follow in Home the location of people who share it permanently with you.

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If you want, touch the contact and other options will appear, such as "Send Location Alert Now", set up your location for that person, pin contact to the app's Home, or remove the contact. You can also tap "Request contact location" if the person doesn't share it live with you, and the coordinates will appear after the time chosen by the contact in their app.

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Always remember that sharing your location with an app like this, which can ask for your real-time coordinates, can drain your battery faster. Take an external battery with you or use the app with more control.

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