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Snapchat will notify your friends when you’ve made it home safe

Jess Weatherbed

created: July 24, 2025, 1 p.m. | updated: July 24, 2025, 2:34 p.m.

Snapchat is launching a new Home Safe feature that makes it easier to inform your loved ones when you have arrived safely after making your way home. While many communications apps like Snapchat, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger enable you to share live location information that others can track, the Home Safe alerts mean that your friends don’t need to keep checking on your progress. The alerts can only be sent to friends that Snapchat users are already sharing their location with, which allows users to proactively select exactly who they want to send the Home Safe alerts to. The Home Safe notifications will appear like this in the conversations they’re activated in. Alerts will then be sent out when the app registers that the user has arrived at their home destination.

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