Enable Location Sharing

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This article is written for: Zello Work Zello Friends & Family.

Zello's location sharing feature allows users to quickly send their current location—both an address and map view—to their associated contacts or channels with the touch of a button. To make this feature available for a network's users, admins must enable it from the management console.

End users: learn more about location sharing. 

Enable Location Sharing 

Please note: This feature is enabled on the basis of operating system. If your network includes both iOS and Android users, ensure you're turning it on for each OS. 

  1. Sign in to the Management Console at [yournetworkname].zellowork.com. Select Settings from the taskbar.
  2. Search for "Location Sharing."
  3. Toggle the setting on for iOS and/or Android, depending on your the devices your users' operational devices.
  4. Click Save and Apply
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To Note

  • In addition to enablement from the console, location sharing requires end-users grant Zello location permissions from their device's settings. 
  • Location sharing is a message type; a user's location will only be sent to their contacts or channels IF they manually do so. Learn more about what this looks like for the end user here.
  • The locations shared through this feature are static—they're representative of a user's location at one point in time. This is not a tracking feature. See this article for information on location tracking.