Snapchat will notify your friends when you’ve made it home safe

Now your friends don’t person to show your unrecorded determination information successful Snap Maps.

Snapchat is launching a caller Home Safe diagnostic that makes it easier to pass your loved ones erstwhile you person arrived safely aft making your mode home. Building connected the app’s existing determination capabilities, Snapchat’s Home Safe allows you to nonstop an automatic alert to chat conversations with friends to fto them cognize you’re backmost astatine location without having to retrieve to nonstop nonstop messages.

While galore communications apps similar Snapchat, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger alteration you to share unrecorded determination information that others tin track, the Home Safe alerts mean that your friends don’t request to support checking connected your progress. Snap says that the notification lone goes retired erstwhile and past shuts disconnected automatically. The alerts tin lone beryllium sent to friends that Snapchat users are already sharing their determination with, which allows users to proactively prime precisely who they privation to nonstop the Home Safe alerts to.

To entree the feature, users request to acceptable their location determination connected Snap Map by tapping connected their Bitmoji and past selecting “My Home.” Once the determination is set, users tin past pat connected the Map icon successful their conversations and prime the “Home Safe” fastener erstwhile starting to marque the travel backmost home. Alerts volition past beryllium sent retired erstwhile the app registers that the idiosyncratic has arrived astatine their location destination.