

If you’ve set location access for Google Maps to “While Using the app”, you’ll be prompted to change it to “Always” before you’re allowed to share your trip progress. Once you start sharing your trip progress with any of your contacts, your real-time location will be shared until you arrive at the destination you selected for navigation. Now you can easily share trip progress using Google Maps on your iPhone any time you want to in the future using the same method. Tap on “More” to share it with any of your iPhone or Google contacts.

However, by sharing your trip progress with one of your contacts, you’re providing them your location details in real-time while your hands are on the wheel, and the estimate updates live depending on your drive and route.

Furthermore, the ETA that we provide is not really accurate in most cases since we’re just estimating off the top of our heads often. This is inconvenient to do especially if you’re driving, and not particularly safe. Most of us have been in a situation where we have to tell people where we are and how long it’s going to take before we reach the destination.
