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What's the impact of sharing live-location via Google Maps on the device's battery?
by sudhirkhanger 6y ago
What's the impact of sharing live-location via Google Maps on the device's battery?
- estebank 6y agoI would guess none, because Google Maps already uploads your position to Google for other use cases on a regular cadence. The only difference I can see is that when looking at the map and clicking on the other person's pin, the location gets immediately updated (within a few seconds), so that's the only extra battery usage.
- Spivak 6y agoThis is assuming that you allow Google maps to access your location in the background always. I would imagine that most people have it set to allow only when using.
- mosselman 6y agoGoogle has been known to track user location even when they’ve opted out. So let’s not assume anything about google.
- afiori 6y agobased on my experience the only change is that contact can remotely ask your phone to refresh its location (the app will let you ask for a refresh only if the last known location is al least ~3 minutes old). For the rest it just shares the last location google already knows of.