Snapchat now permits you to inform others when you’ve got arrived at your vacation spot

After launching a “Residence Secure” characteristic that lets customers notify family and friends after they’ve arrived dwelling safely, Snapchat is now introducing further alerts to tell others when customers have arrived at different locations.

The social media large introduced on Monday that with its new “Arrival Notifications,” customers can now set one-time or recurring alerts for places past their dwelling, offering an automated technique to share after they’ve arrived at particular locations.

“Arrival Notifications now work for on a regular basis moments — like letting somebody know you’re again for the night time whereas touring, or mechanically sharing whenever you arrive at a weekly class, follow, or assembly — with no need to recollect to ship a message,” the corporate wrote in a weblog submit.

As with the platform’s Residence Secure alerts, Arrival Notifications can solely be despatched to buddies you select to share your location with. It’s value noting that location sharing on Snap Map is off by default. Nobody can see your location or obtain an alert except you select to share it, Snapchat defined. One-time alerts expire after they’re despatched or after 24 hours.

To make use of Arrival Notifications, you might want to share your location with a trusted pal that you just need to preserve within the loop. Then, you might want to faucet in your friendship profile and scroll right down to “Arrival Notifications.” You’ll be able to decide a location on the map and provides it a private identify. For instance, you could possibly set the placement to your “run membership” or the placement for “piano classes.” You’ll be able to then select a one-time or recurring alert, after which Snapchat will notify your pal whenever you arrive.

The brand new characteristic comes as Snapchat introduced final summer season that Snap Map now has greater than 400 million month-to-month energetic customers.

Snap Map, which launched in 2017, was initially a method for customers to see their buddies’ places and browse public snaps from world wide. The characteristic now additionally provides methods for customers to uncover native hotspots and discover issues to do.

With its Residence Secure and Arrival Notifications options, Snapchat is seeking to additional compete with companies just like the household location-sharing app Life360 and Apple’s “Discover My.”