Snapchat Lets You Choose When You Want to Send or Receive Location on Snap Map
Snapchat launched Snap Map last year to help users share their location with friends, and view snaps that they might have shared from that place. With Map Explore , earlier this year, Snapchat lets users get alerts and updates about what was happening on the Snap Map. But many have criticized Map Explore as a gross invasion of privacy as it broadcasted the user’s location all the time, even after they closed the app at times. Now Snapchat is fixing this and giving users more control over location sharing, with mew send and request location features. (Image: TechCrunch) According to Tech Crunch , the new features allows users to choose when they want to share their location with a friend and request a friend’s location, which would only show up on the Snap Map when the friend agrees to share it. Snapchat has confirmed to TechCrunch that the feature has been slowly rolling out to both iOS and Android users over the past few weeks, so you’ll receive it soon,...