Google kills off app that allow you to verify in on family members throughout an emergency

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Google will discontinue its emergency location sharing app Trusted Contacts in December, and has already yanked it from the Google Play Retailer. As a substitute, it’s directing current customers to strive comparable however much less useful options in Google Maps. That’s a disgrace, as a result of whereas Trusted Contacts may allow you to discover a member of the family even when they don’t reply (say, if they’re unconscious or in peril), Google Maps requires them to proactively broadcast their location to you.

The announcement was fairly abrupt:

Ian Carlos Campbell
Google’s e-mail announcement

Google Maps has been in a position to do actual time location sharing since 2017, however once more, you must opt-in to fixed monitoring, sharing your location with different folks all of the…

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