How to Share Your Live Location on WhatsApp With Your Android

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How to Share Your Live Location on WhatsApp With Your Android

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Sharing your live Location on WhatsApp is updating and sharing your real-time location with others. It can be in a group, personal chat, or to everyone, but only those you shared it with can see it.

You can control how long you want it to appear and those you wish to see and remove it when you deem fit. This is one of the end-to-end encryption features on WhatsApp.

There are various ways to share your Live Location on WhatsApp, such as in a group or personal chat. Still, before you can share your Location on WhatsApp, you have to enable the WhatsApp location permission on your Android device and the procedures you will take are listed below:

How to Enable Location Permission on Android

Before sharing your real-time Location on WhatsApp, you must enable location permission on your phone. Below are the guidelines for allowing location permission on your device.

Go to your Phone Settings app.
Click on App or App and Notification
Select WhatsApp from the list of apps displayed
On the next page, locate Permissions and tap on it
You will see all the permissions, both the ones you enabled and also those you disabled
Search for and tap on Location to turn it on

After you have enabled location permission on your phone, you can share your live Location on WhatsApp.

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How to Share Your Live Location on WhatsApp In a Group or Individual Chat

Sharing your Live Location to a group chat will allow all the group members to access it until it expires, and only those in the group where you shared it will see it.

Here are the guidelines on how you can share your live Location on WhatsApp to a specific group or Individual chat with your Android device:

Open WhatsApp on your phone and tap on the group or individual chat you wish to share your live location to
Click on the bottom of the phone where this icon is located ->
Tap on Location
Then tap on Share Live Location
Select the duration or the length of time you want it to be shared; people with whom you shared it will not be able to see it after the duration selected has expired.
Finally, tap on the

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How to Share Your Live Location on WhatsApp to Everyone Through an Android Phone

Below are the procedures for sharing your real-time Location with everyone on WhatsApp through your Android phone.

Open WhatsApp on your phone
Tap on at the top right corner of the page containing all the chats
Scroll down and tap on Settings
Tap on Privacy
And on the next page, scroll down and tap on Live Location
Select the duration and confirm

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How to Stop Sharing Your Live Location on WhatsApp

Due to security reasons, you have decided to stop sharing your live Location on WhatsApp either on a group chat, individual chat or to everyone. Here are the best guidelines on how you can do it in a short time.

How to stop sharing your live Location On a Specific group or Individual chat

Open WhatsApp on your phone
Tap on the group or individual chat
Click on Stop Sharing Location
Tap on Stop

How to Stop Sharing Your Location On all Chats on WhatsApp, both Individual and Group

Open WhatsApp on your device
Tap on
Tap on Settings
Click on Privacy
Then tap on Live Location on the next page
Tap on Stop Sharing
Click on Stop to complete the procedures