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1. In Latitude, press
Menu
and then touch
Add friends
.
2. Choose how to add friends:
Select from Contacts:
Select any number of friends from Contacts.
Add via email address:
Enter an email address and touch
Add friends
.
3. Confirm your friend is checked and touch
Yes
.
If your friends already use Latitude, they receive an email request and a notification on Latitude.
If they have not yet joined Latitude, they receive an email request that tells them to sign in to
Latitude with their Google account.
Accepting an Invitation
When you get a sharing request from a friend, you can:
●
Accept and share back:
You can see your friends’ locations, and they can see yours.
●
Accept, but hide my location:
You can see your friends’ locations, but they can’t see
yours.
●
Don’t accept:
No location information is shared between you and your friends.
You can change how your location is shared with each friend at any time. See
Inviting Friends
for details.
Showing Your Friends
You can show your friends using the map view or the list view.
Map View:
When you open Google Maps™, it shows your friends’ locations. Each friend is represented by
a photo icon with an arrow pointing at his or her approximate location. If a friend has opted to
enable city-level sharing, his or her icon will not have an arrow and it appears in the middle of
the city. See
Inviting Friends
for more details.
To see your friend’s profile and connect with him or her, touch the photo. This will display your
friend’s name, and then touch the balloon right above his or her icon.
List View:
To show a list of your friends, in Google Maps, press
Menu
and then touch
Latitude
.
To see a friend’s profile and connect with him or her, select your friend’s name from the list.
