Snapchat now lets you inform others when you have arrived at your destination

After launching a “Home Safe” diagnostic that lets users notify friends and household erstwhile they’ve arrived location safely, Snapchat is present introducing further alerts to pass others erstwhile users person arrived astatine different destinations.

The societal media elephantine announced connected Monday that with its caller “Arrival Notifications,” users tin present acceptable one-time oregon recurring alerts for locations beyond their home, providing an automatic mode to stock erstwhile they’ve arrived astatine circumstantial places.

“Arrival Notifications present enactment for mundane moments — similar letting idiosyncratic cognize you’re backmost for the nighttime portion traveling, oregon automatically sharing erstwhile you get astatine a play class, practice, oregon gathering — without needing to retrieve to nonstop a message,” the institution wrote successful a blog post.

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As with the platform’s Home Safe alerts, Arrival Notifications tin lone beryllium sent to friends you take to stock your determination with. It’s worthy noting that determination sharing connected Snap Map is disconnected by default. No 1 tin spot your determination oregon person an alert unless you take to stock it, Snapchat explained. One-time alerts expire aft they’re sent oregon aft 24 hours.

To usage Arrival Notifications, you request to stock your determination with a trusted person that you privation to support successful the loop. Then, you request to pat connected your relationship illustration and scroll down to “Arrival Notifications.” You tin prime a determination connected the representation and springiness it a idiosyncratic name. For example, you could acceptable the determination for your “run club” oregon the determination for “piano lessons.” You tin past take a one-time oregon recurring alert, aft which Snapchat volition notify your person erstwhile you arrive.

The caller diagnostic comes arsenic Snapchat announced past summertime that Snap Map now has much than 400 cardinal monthly progressive users.

Snap Map, which launched successful 2017, was primitively a mode for users to spot their friends’ locations and browse nationalist snaps from astir the world. The diagnostic present besides offers ways for users to discover section hotspots and find things to do.

With its Home Safe and Arrival Notifications features, Snapchat is looking to further vie with services similar the household location-sharing app Life360 and Apple’s “Find My.”