For years, location permissions have been a bit of a mess on Android. You open an app, it asks for your location, and you’re suddenly making a decision: While using the app? Always? Precise?

Android 17 Beta 3 introduces a new “location button.” The button is designed to provide simplified access to precise location ...

Share your current or live location from your Android phone in seconds, using the apps you already have installed.

Android 17 features a number of location privacy updates, with the latest introduced in Beta 3 being the "location button." ...

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Part of Google's general March 2026 update is the ability to share your live location directly inside the Messages app. It ...

Google has introduced live location sharing in Google Messages for Android users. Previously, the messaging app only supported one-time static location sharing, ...

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Location sharing permissions should be a one-time only deal. Android 17 will see to that ...