Google Maps Location Sharing Now Also Shares Your Phone’s Battery Life
Google has been rolling out features for its Google Maps over the past few weeks, but recently android police has spotted something new. If you try to ping someone’s location and their phone is dead, there’s not much an app can do. Most location-sharing apps will just sit there and spin while they wait for some sort of response, leaving you to worry about all the reasons their phone might not be responding with a current location. Did they lose signal? Did someone steal their phone? Now when you let a friend know where you are through the Google Maps app, another icon is included with your location information and battery level details. "You"ll be able to keep a watchful eye on how much battery life they have left. Now, there won"t be as much cause for worry if someone"s location drops off because you"ll be able to know if it could just be because their phone died," the report added. Early in 2017, Google added a feature to Google Maps that lets you opt...