User's Manual
Your location is not shared automatically. You must join Latitude, and then invite
your friends to view your location or accept their invitations.
6.5.1OpeningLatitude
While viewing a map in any mode, press MENU and then tap Latitude.
6.5.2Sharingyourlocations
After you join Latitude, you can start sharing your locations with your friends. Only
friends that you have explicitly invited or accepted can see your location.
6.5.3Invitingfriends
To share your location with friends and request to see their locations
1. In Latitude, press MENU and then tap Add friends.
2. Choose how to add friends:
• Select from Contacts. Select any number of friends from your Contacts.
Friends who already use Latitude have a icon next to their names.
• Add via email address. Enter an email address.
3. Tap Add friends.
4. Tap OK.
If your friends already use Latitude, they receive an email request and a notification
on Latitude. If they have not yet joined Latitude, they receive an email request that
tells them to sign in to Latitude with their Google Account.
6.5.4Acceptinganinvitation
When you get a sharing request from a friend, you can:
• Accept and share back. You can see your friend’s location, and your friend can
see yours.
• Accept, but hide my location. You can see your friend’s location, but they can’t
see yours.
• Don’t accept. No location information is shared between you and your friend.
You can change how your location is shared with each friend at any time.
6.5.5Showingyourfriends
You can show your friends using the map view or the list view.
Map view
When you open Google Maps, it shows your friends’ locations. Each friend is
represented by a photo icon with an arrow pointing at his or her approximate
location. If a friend has opted to enable city-level sharing, his or her icon will not
have an arrow and it appears in the middle of the city.
To see your friend’s profile and connect with him or her, tap the photo.
This will display your friend’s name, then tap the balloon right above his or her icon.