Guide · September 2026

How to share your live location with a link

You’re on your way and someone wants to know where you are. Here is how to send them a live location link that opens in any browser, needs no app on their side, and deletes itself when you arrive.

What you need

• You: the MyLoco app. It’s free and on Google Play. The iPhone version is with Apple for review.
• Them: nothing. A browser on any phone or laptop. No account, no download.

Share your live location in three steps

1. Open MyLoco and tap Share my location.
2. Pick how long: 15, 30 or 60 minutes, or until you stop. A short link appears, something like myloco.app/s/k7q2f.
3. Paste it into any chat: SMS, WhatsApp, iMessage, the group thread. Whoever opens it sees your live pin on a map.

That’s it. No contact to add on their side, no invitation to accept, no “download the app to continue” wall.

Pick how long, then let it end on its own

Every share has a timer, and you see it counting down on your screen the whole time. When it reaches 0:00 the link stops working and your location data is deleted from our servers. Arrived early? Tap Stop and the link dies instantly. Need longer? Start a new share. There is no “extend forever” button, on purpose.

What the other person sees

A map with your pin, your name, and how fresh the position is (“updated 5s ago”). If they let the browser use their own location, they also see the route between you and a live ETA. Nothing is installed and nothing is left on their phone afterwards. Open the same link after the timer has ended and it says so, politely. There is no history to scroll back through, for them or for you.

Sharing with a group

Start a group share and invite friends who have MyLoco: everyone sees each other on one live map, each on their own timer. Friends without the app can still follow the whole group in a browser with the watch link. Good for festivals, ski days, and “we’re all heading to the same restaurant from different directions.”

When a temporary location link beats the usual options

Most phones can already share a location. The built-in options work best when everyone is on the same app and signed in, and many keep sharing until someone remembers to turn it off. A link that expires is for the other cases (the long version of why is in Temporary location sharing, explained):

• Meeting someone who doesn’t have your app, or any app you’d want them to install.
• A group chat where people use different phones and different messengers.
• A date, a marketplace pickup, a first meeting: let a friend watch for an hour, then it’s gone.
• Picking up kids, parents, or a friend at the airport: they watch you approach instead of calling.
• A run or a ride: someone at home sees you’re moving, and the share ends when you’re back.
• A business sending a driver or technician to a customer: MyLoco for Business creates the same kind of link with your logo on it, from one API call.

What we keep (nothing, once it ends)

While a share is active we store your current position so the link can show it. When the share ends, the position is erased and the share itself is deleted within a day. There are no accounts for personal use, so there is no profile to break into and no location history to leak. The details are in the privacy policy.

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