
With Live Location, navigate to a friend's profile and give them real-time tracking access to your location for 15 minutes, an hour, or eight hours.
Snapchat Live Location: Allow a friend or family member to track your specific location with Snapchat's Live Location feature. Use My Places to keep track of your favorite spots: The Places tab at the bottom center of the screen shows popular spots nearby, your favorites, and spots you've tagged in your snaps.
Or, tap +Custom at the top of the Send To tab to create your own Geo Story, which you can share with people nearby.
Add your snaps to Our Story: If you're snapping from a location with its own story collection, select Our Story from the Send To tab after taking a snap. Tap a popular part of the map to reveal the circular story collection, then tap the story collection to view the stories added to it. View Stories for hot spots: Scouting out the colored portions of the map reveals story collections for popular locations and events. Tap a colored area to view the snaps shared from there. Blue means there are a few snaps, while red means a lot of activity is happening there. Use the heat map to see snaps other people have shared: Use your finger to drag the map around and look for the splashes of color on the map, which shows where people are snapping.
Search for a friend's location: Wondering where in the world a friend might be? Tap Search at the top of the screen to look for a specific friend on the map.Tap a friend to start a chat with them, or tap and hold to go to their profile. See your friends' locations: Friends who've chosen to share their location with you appear on the Snap Map.