{"id":90916,"date":"2020-10-16T20:32:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T17:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/google-is-killing-trusted-contacts-removing-the-app-today-review-geek\/"},"modified":"2020-10-16T20:32:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T17:32:52","slug":"google-is-killing-trusted-contacts-removing-the-app-today-review-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/google-is-killing-trusted-contacts-removing-the-app-today-review-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"#Google is Killing Trusted Contacts, Removing the App Today \u2013 Review Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;#Google is Killing Trusted Contacts, Removing the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a> Today \u2013 Review Geek&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content-area\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_57421\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-57421 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/thumbcache\/0\/0\/861032369e42b48c193ad6c5975499ae\/p\/uploads\/2020\/10\/xc7d40b13.png.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+ws+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.403cUuWhA0.jpg\" alt=\"Trusted Contacts location sharing app for trusted family and friends\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data-crediturl=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/trustedcontacts\/?hl=en#topic=7215381\" data-credittext=\"Google\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/trustedcontacts\/?hl=en#topic=7215381\">Google<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Google just announced via email that it will be removing its <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/contacts.google.com\/trustedcontacts\/\">Trusted Contacts<\/a> app from both Google Play and the Apple App Store today. However, it has put this same functionality into Google Maps with its Location Sharing feature, so you\u2019ll still be able to share or track contacts that way.<\/p>\n<p>Trusted Contacts was originally launched over three years ago as a way for people to remain aware of the location of their trusted friends and family members. Though the app is being removed today, Google will continue to support it until December 1, 2020, so you can still use it for another month or so.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57422\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-57422 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/thumbcache\/0\/0\/2512949fa6b404ac3eab09b10bdfce75\/p\/uploads\/2020\/10\/x9cc495b0.png.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+ws+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.yelLtjRPlM.jpg\" alt=\"Email text from Google about removing the Google Trusted Contacts app\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" data-crediturl=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/trustedcontacts\/?hl=en#topic=7215381\" data-credittext=\"Google\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/trustedcontacts\/?hl=en#topic=7215381\">Google<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You can also download any trusted contacts you\u2019ve created from the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/contacts.google.com\/trustedcontacts\/u\/0\/dashboard\/\">Trusted Contacts page<\/a>, before the December 1 cutoff. At that point, the app will no longer work for sharing or viewing locations. To continue seeing and sharing location updates after December 1, you can download the free Google Maps app on your <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/google-maps-transit-food\/id585027354\">iOS<\/a> or <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.maps&amp;hl=en\">Android<\/a> device.<\/p>\n<p><small>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/trustedcontacts\/?hl=en#topic=7215381\">Google<\/a><\/small>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>setTimeout(function(){!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','1137093656460433');fbq('track','PageView');},3000);<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Technology category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/57414\/google-is-killing-trusted-contacts-removing-the-app-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Google is Killing Trusted Contacts, Removing the App Today \u2013 Review Geek&#8221; Google Google just announced via email that it will be removing its Trusted Contacts app from both Google Play and the Apple App Store today. However, it has put this same functionality into Google Maps with its Location Sharing feature, so you\u2019ll still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/p\/uploads\/2020\/10\/c7d40b13.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}