With recent reports suggesting that Snapchat is on its way to acquiring social map app Zenly, the photo-sharing app has now introduced location sharing feature known as ‘Snap Map’ in its latest updates to their iOS & Android apps.
The feature which was recently rolled out to all iOS and Android users globally will allow you to share your current location, which appears to friends on a map and updates when you open the Snapchat app.
The new feature will allow you to choose to share your location with all your friends, a few friends you select, or you can disappear from the map at any time by going into “Ghost Mode” or not opening Snapchat for a few hours.
To access the Snap Map, allow you need to do is pinch on your Snapchat camera home screen. Thereafter, you can scroll around to see where friends are in your city or around the world.
Apart from the location-sharing element, Snap Map also provides an alternative way to discover Story content beyond the well-worn Stories feed and the powerful “Story Search” feature.
Users can see “heat” colours on the Snap Map which indicates where lots of Snaps are being uploaded, this could possibly be a concert or big event from which you’d want to explore Snap Stories.
Snap Map will only update when you open the app, striving towards more privacy and saving battery life, ruling it out from competing with Facebook Messenger’s “Live Location” feature.
