Google’s Discover My System app can now pres...

Google’s replace to the Discover My System app, which provides a “Folks” tab exhibiting contacts who’ve shared their location with you (and vice versa), is now accessible for Android customers. The corporate announced the feature at first of the month with the March Pixel Drop, and it began rolling out this week, as noticed by 9to5Google. With the replace, now you can see your accepted contacts’ real-time areas on the map, above a listing that shows the addresses of their present positions, their distance from you and the time since that data was final refreshed.

Whereas Google Maps already let customers handle location sharing and maintain monitor of trusted contacts, the Discover My System replace makes all this data simpler to seek out, with a extra simple presentation. Within the Folks tab, you possibly can select to see the contacts who’ve shared their location with you, and people you’ve shared your location with. You may as well change Google accounts and alter your Location Sharing settings at any time from throughout the app utilizing the tab on the high proper. The replace comes nearly a 12 months after Google first launched Find My Device, and brings the service extra in step with Apple’s Find My app.