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After you join Latitude, you can start sharing your locations with your friends. Only friends that
you have explicitly invited or accepted can see your location.
To open Latitude after joining:
1. Press
Home
, and touch
>
Latitude
.
2. Select the following options.
Touch
MAP VIEW
to see you friend on the Google Map.
Touch
to invite your friend to the Latitude.
Touch
to sign in the Latitude.
Touch
to refresh the friend list.
Press
Menu
>
Location settings
to configure
your location reporting and
sharing.
Inviting Friends
To share your location with friends and request to see their locations:
1. In Latitude, touch
.
2. Choose how to add friends:
Select from Contacts
: Select any number of friends from People.
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 see
“… new sharing requests” message.
Touch it and 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.
