You can choose who can find your location and how long to share your location with Google Location Sharing.
Tip: Other Google products may also allow you to share a one-time location with others.
Location Sharing availability
You may get a warning when you open Location sharing. Common causes include:
- You're in a country or region where you can’t share your location.
- Location sharing isn’t available for your Google Workspace domain. To turn on location sharing, ask your administrator.
- You're too young to share your location.
- When our systems indicate you may be under 18, you can no longer share your location for more than 24 hours. Learn more about age restrictions here. If permanent location sharing was created before September 2, 2021, you can manually disable it.
- Your parent or guardian can manage Location sharing with the Family Link app
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If Location sharing doesn’t work for you, send us feedback.
Important: You must use a mobile device to share your real-time location through Location sharing. However, you can control your Location sharing settings from a computer. Learn how to share your location on your Android phone or tablet or iPhone or iPad.
Find someone's location
When someone shares their location with you, you can find them on your map.
- On your computer, open Google Maps
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- Click Menu
Location sharing.
- Choose someone.
Tip: To find someone's location, you can also ask the Google Assistant.
Hide or show someone's location
If you don’t want someone’s real-time location on your map, you can hide it. You can turn their location back on at any time.
- On your computer, open Google Maps
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- Click Menu
Location sharing.
- Tap their icon.
- To temporarily hide someone, tap Hide on map.
Tip: You can permanently block someone’s location from your map. Learn how to block another person’s account.
Turn on someone’s location you’ve hidden- On your computer, open Google Maps
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- Click Menu
Location sharing.
- Hover over the hide icon next to someone.
- Click Show on map.
Stop sharing
- On your computer, open your Location sharing settings.
- Next to the person with whom you want to stop sharing, click Remove
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