{"id":91248,"date":"2017-04-18T14:56:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T14:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=91248"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:53:24","slug":"time-to-wrap-up-that-affair-whatsapps-new-feature-could-catch-you-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/time-to-wrap-up-that-affair-whatsapps-new-feature-could-catch-you-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Wrap Up that Affair: WhatsApp\u2019s New Feature Could catch you Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever lie about where you are you could find yourself in trouble sooner rather later. WhatsApp is to add the facility to <strong>broadcast your live location to all of your contacts<\/strong>. The feature is likely to be really <strong>useful for anybody running late or for groups who have agreed to meet<\/strong> but if you\u2019re a bit of a sneak you might want to watch out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-91250\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/sending-live-location-on-whatsapp.jpg\" alt=\"Time to Wrap Up that Affair: WhatsApp\u2019s New Feature Could catch you Out\" width=\"540\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/sending-live-location-on-whatsapp.jpg 540w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/sending-live-location-on-whatsapp-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Live location sharing has recently been rolled out by Google Maps but now it seems likely to be added to WhatsApp too when the latest update lands. According to the Twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WABetaInfo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WABetaInfo<\/a> <strong>WhatsApp\u2019s location sharing service will allow you to leave comments in group and individual chats.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As well as Live Locations<\/strong> the new update looks like it will bring <strong>number changing<\/strong> to WhatsApp. A useful feature, number changing <strong>will allow you to change your mobile number without losing all of your WhatsApp data<\/strong> in the process. It seems crazy that this hasn\u2019t been a part of WhatsApp for years ubt at least now it looks like the ubiquitous messaging app will finally get a dose of common sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever lie about where you are you could find yourself in trouble sooner rather later. WhatsApp is to add the facility to broadcast your live location to all of your contacts. The feature is likely to be really useful for anybody running late or for groups who have agreed to meet but if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/time-to-wrap-up-that-affair-whatsapps-new-feature-could-catch-you-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Time to Wrap Up that Affair: WhatsApp\u2019s New Feature Could catch you Out&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":91249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-91248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328827,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91248\/revisions\/328827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91248"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=91248"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=91248"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=91248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}