178 Google Apps
Connecting with your friends
Tap a friend’s contact details balloon in map view or tap a friend in list view to open the friend’s profile. In the profile screen, you can communicate with your friend and set privacy options.
Options | Description |
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Show on map | Find a friend’s location on the map. |
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Chat using Google | Send an instant message. Google Talk opens a chat |
Talk | window with that friend. |
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Send email | Send an email. Gmail opens an email addressed to that |
| friend. |
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Get directions | Get directions to the friend’s location. |
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Sharing options | Select from the following: |
| • Best available location. Share your precise location |
| information. |
| • Share only city level location. Share only the city you |
| are in, not the |
| see your photo icon in the middle of the city you are |
| in. To share more precise location again, tap Best |
| available location. |
| • Hide from this friend. Stop sharing your location with |
| this friend, in a list or on a map. |
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Remove this friend | Remove the friend from your list and stop sharing |
| locations with him or her altogether. |
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Changing privacy settings
You have control over how and when you can be found by your friends. Only the last location sent to Latitude is stored with your Google Account. If you turn off Latitude or are hiding, no location is stored.