Side by side, from their own pages.

Apple documents an accuracy circle for your own location in Maps, but no official page describes an age label or an accuracy circle for a friend in Find My. ¹

Google lists what people you share with see: your name, profile picture, real-time location and battery status. No age or accuracy readout is described. ¹⁸

A grey icon signals a lost connection; it isn’t a timestamp or an accuracy circle. ³⁰

No accuracy circle or “minutes ago” label is described. ⁵¹

Snap says your spot on the Map expires after 24 hours if location permission is “Only while using”. ⁵⁹

Under Me, “Notifications About You” lists the people alerted when your location changes, and you can turn them off. It isn’t a record of every look. ²

Its settings article covers stopping, pausing and, per person, whether they may set notifications about you. ¹⁸

Its notification types (places, low battery, drives, safety and more) don’t include “someone viewed you”. ³¹

Live location is a chat message. Message info shows when it was delivered, read or played; in one-to-one chats, read receipts can be turned off. ⁵²

Only the friends you choose can see your location on the Map. ⁶⁰

Apple describes only “location changed” alerts, which the located person approves the first time. ³

Google documents two notification types, arrival and departure. None fires when someone opens or refreshes your location. ¹⁹

No page covers whether you’re told when someone views or refreshes your location. ³²

Live location is started by the person sharing; nothing else is documented. ⁵¹

Friends you pick aren’t notified when you pick them, and no page describes a per-view alert. ⁶¹

Apple’s pages don’t say what others see while it’s hidden, or whether they’re told. ³

Your shares stay on but stop updating until you turn it back on. ¹⁸

Your exact location and driving aren’t shared during a Bubble. A Circle admin can turn Bubbles off for everyone. ³³

Both end the share; to share again you start a new one. ⁵¹

Snap still receives your location, but no one else sees it on the Map. ⁶²

Your location disappears from the other person’s Find My, Maps, Contacts and Messages. ³

Sharing is one way: the sharer stops it from their own list. ²⁰

Life360 says it is an opt-in service. ³⁰

In the chat, or for every chat at once under Settings > Privacy > Live location. ⁵¹

Once set up, Snap Map can’t be turned off entirely, but you can always hide. ⁶³

Your friend approves the first time a recurring alert is set for them. Find My has no paid plan. ⁴

Arrival and departure notifications, added by the viewer. ¹⁹

From Life360’s product terms, which apply in every country. ³⁴

Its location features are a one-time pin and time-limited live location. ⁵¹

They tell close friends when you arrive. “One time” expires after 24 hours; “Every time” stays on. Not among the Snapchat+ perks. ^{64 65}

Find My shows the current or last known location. When one person uses a version older than iOS 17, Apple keeps shared location for up to 24 hours, then deletes it; when both use iOS 17 or later, Apple says it has no access to it. ⁵

You can also delete it yourself, or opt in to an encrypted backup on Google’s servers. ²¹

Life360 says there is no way to delete history or drives except by deleting your account. It doesn’t say where history is stored. ³⁵

WhatsApp’s privacy policy says messages are deleted from its servers once delivered. ⁵³

Location tied to a Snap saved to Memories or posted to Snap Map or Spotlight is kept as long as the Snap is stored. ^{66 67}

You set a destination or a timer; if you don’t complete it, your friend sees the details you chose. Both need iOS 17 or later. Free. ⁶

Google’s separate Personal Safety app (Pixel) schedules a Safety Check instead, from 15 minutes to 8 hours. ²²

It sends your location to every member at once. No plan restriction is stated. ³²

Checked against its live location and safety help pages. ⁵¹

It goes only to friends you already share with, once, then switches itself off. ⁶⁸

No Find My or Maps page describes a personal driving report. ⁷

The speedometer shows your own speed while navigating; nothing is compiled or shared with family. ²³

Full reports show top speed, phone use, hard braking and rapid acceleration. ³⁶

Nothing about speed or driving reports. ⁵¹

Not in Family Center, Snap Map help or the Snapchat+ perks. ⁶⁹

You pick the length when you start sharing. ⁸

Trip sharing during navigation ends by itself when you arrive. ^{20 24}

It expires by itself. Life360 doesn’t say which plans include it. ³⁷

You pick the length when you start; WhatsApp’s page doesn’t write the options out as text. ⁵¹

Timed sharing is described only in press coverage, not on Snap’s own pages. ⁶⁰

A member’s sharing ends only if they leave the family group or stop sharing. ⁹

“Share trip progress” sends your destination, ETA and location to people you pick; each is an individual share. ²⁰

Members are told when it ends and can extend or recreate it. Which plans include it isn’t stated. ³⁸

The group chat itself stays; there’s no separate trip that dissolves. ⁵¹

Its sharing modes are My Friends, My Friends Except…, Only These Friends and Ghost Mode. ⁶⁰

Apple Watch’s separate Walkie-Talkie app works watch to watch and isn’t part of Find My. ⁷

No Google Maps or Google Account help page ties voice to location sharing. ²⁰

Those buttons replaced in-app messaging; Quick Notes are emoji only. ³⁹

Its live location page doesn’t mention push-to-talk. ⁵¹

Its location-sharing page doesn’t mention voice. ⁶⁰

Apple’s trip sharing is one to one: an ETA and Live Location for a single route. ⁷

Only individual real-time sharing and one-way trip sharing are described. ²⁰

Its driving features are crash alerts, driving reports and drive history. ⁴⁰

Its Help Center, live location announcement and store listings don’t mention one. ⁵¹

Not on its sharing, Family Center or Home Safe pages. ⁶⁰

An ETA shared from Apple Maps reaches Android users as a link they open in a browser. Ongoing sharing needs the other person’s own Apple ID. ¹⁰

Send it by email, text or any messaging app; it works for up to 24 hours. ²⁰

The viewer needs neither the app nor an account. ³⁷

Both you and your contacts need a WhatsApp account and the latest app. ⁵⁴

People who added you but whom you haven’t added back aren’t included. ⁷⁰

Emergency SOS shares your location with emergency services during the call, then sends your emergency contacts your location, with updates as it changes. ¹¹

Emergency SOS is in Google’s separate Personal Safety app, on Pixel 4a and later: it can call for help and share your location with your emergency contacts. ²²

On paid plans in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand (Gold only in some European countries), an SOS also reaches a 24/7 emergency service whose agents call you and can contact police or an ambulance. Saudi Arabia and the UAE aren’t listed. ⁴¹

Checked against its live location page, safety help and store listings. ⁵¹

Home Safe, Arrival Notifications and Family Center don’t mention emergency services. ⁶⁸

Crash Detection (iPhone 14 or later, Apple Watch Series 8 or later) calls emergency services and messages your emergency contacts after a severe crash; Apple doesn’t name Saudi Arabia or the UAE either way. Emergency SOS via satellite, for places without signal, lists 20 countries, and Saudi Arabia and the UAE aren’t among them. ^{12 13}

Car Crash Detection is in the Personal Safety app on Pixel 4a and later; its list of countries doesn’t include Saudi Arabia or the UAE. ²²

Life360’s own pages differ: its Free Crash Detection page lists the US only; its Drive Detection & Analysis page lists the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Neither lists Saudi Arabia or the UAE. ^{42 40}

No page, post or store listing describes it. ⁵¹

Only manual (Home Safe) and place-based (Place Alerts) triggers are described. ⁶⁹

Both people need a supported iPhone, and it isn’t available in all countries or regions. Find My doesn’t run on Android. ¹⁴

Find Hub’s Find nearby gives distance and direction to lost belongings and tracker tags, not to another person’s phone. ²⁵

The meter needs a Bluetooth link to a Tile tracker; it doesn’t work between two members’ phones. ⁴³

WhatsApp shares a pin or a map view only. ⁵¹

Tapping a friend opens a chat; press and hold opens their profile. ⁷¹

There’s no Find My for Android; an Android user can only receive a one-trip ETA link. ¹⁵

Google keeps separate help for Android, iPhone and computer; the 3-day iMessage option, for example, is iPhone-only. ²⁴

Not on iPad, tablets, or phones without Google services. ⁴⁴

WhatsApp announced live location for both Android and iPhone. ⁵⁵

Official App Store and Google Play listings. ^{72 73}

Find Devices works on iCloud.com; Apple doesn’t say whether someone without an Apple device can see a friend there. ¹⁶

The link opens in a browser, without the app or an account, for up to 24 hours. ²⁰

Sign-up by phone number is limited to a few countries; a WhatsApp number is offered instead. ⁴⁵

The account is verified by phone number. ⁵⁴

You appear only once you’re friends both ways, open the Map, allow location and choose to share. ⁶⁷

Listed on its App Store page. ¹⁵

Listed on its App Store page. ²⁶

Checked on its US and Saudi App Store pages. ⁴⁶

Arabic is in both of WhatsApp’s language lists. ⁵⁶

Listed on its App Store page. ⁷²

Its sharing features are free with an Apple ID. Emergency SOS via satellite is free for two years after activation; Apple hasn’t published a price after that. ^{15 13}

Its App Store listing shows Google One and Google AI plans (from $0.89); none of them concerns location sharing. ²⁶

In the US: Silver $9.99, Gold $16.99, Platinum $24.99 a month. No Platinum price in SAR or AED was listed. ^{47 46 48}

Its App Store listing shows in-app purchases such as “No ads” from $4.00; none of them concerns location. No SAR or AED price is published. ⁵⁷

Saudi App Store: SAR 16.99 and 18.99 a month, and a SAR 49.99 tier. UAE: AED 14.99 and 16.99 a month, and Snapchat+ Ad Free at AED 49.99. ^{74 75}

Apple says its own advertising platform doesn’t track you or share data with data brokers. ¹⁷

Google says you can find ads while you browse, search, use directions or navigate. ²⁷

Life360 says ads in the app may be tailored. Turning personalisation off stops your data being used for ads on other apps and sites. Its privacy policy says it shows no ads in Child or Teen accounts. ^{49 50}

Rolling out gradually; they may not be in your region yet. ⁵⁸

Snap says ads can be relevant to your location and to places you’re near or visit often. ⁷⁶

Its privacy policy says Apple doesn’t sell personal data, including as Nevada and California define a sale, and doesn’t share it as California defines sharing. ¹⁷

Its privacy policy lists the cases in which it shares personal information outside Google, such as with your consent or for legal reasons. ^{28 29}

Including to advertising partners. You can opt out in its privacy settings (“Do Not Sell or Share my Personal Information”). Policy updated 10 September 2026. ⁵⁰

Its privacy policy says it shares information with Meta companies to personalise features and content and to show relevant offers and ads across Meta products. ⁵³

Nor for those third parties’ own purposes. It may share it with service providers to run its services. ⁷⁷