Share Location App for iPhone
WAY is the simplest way to share your real-time location with friends on iPhone — temporary, private, and entirely on your terms.
WAY is the simplest way to share your real-time location with friends on iPhone — temporary, private, and entirely on your terms.
Traditional location sharing apps assume you want to broadcast your position forever. WAY assumes the opposite. Every share expires on its own, you control it per friend, and a single tap on Ghost Mode disables everything. It's location sharing built for adults who value their privacy.
Find My is great for family but built around your Apple ID. Snapchat and Instagram bundle location into a noisy social feed. Google Maps requires a Google account and treats sharing as permanent. WAY does one thing well: temporary, private location sharing for the times when you actually need it.
Met someone new at an event and want to add them as a one-night-only contact? WAY's stranger inbox lets you accept, ignore, or block requests from people you don't know — without exposing your full network. And because share codes rotate, you can sever the connection later with no awkwardness.
Add a friend by scanning their QR code or entering a share code, and once you both add each other you can ping each other to see where you are. Your location only goes to people you have added: once when you add them, then whenever they ping you, automatically while Auto-approve (on by default) or Festival Mode is on, or with your tap otherwise.
Yes. Every location you share disappears from friends' maps after 10, 30 or 60 minutes, depending on your battery preset. Festival Mode, which answers every crew ping automatically, runs for a set duration and then switches itself off — up to 4 hours on the free tier, or 24 hours with the optional WAY+ unlock. You can also stop sharing per friend at any time or use Ghost Mode, a one-tap kill switch that stops all sharing immediately and deletes your published location records.
WAY is free to use with no ads, no third-party analytics, and no tracking SDKs, and your data flows through Apple's CloudKit instead of custom servers. There is an optional one-time $4.99 WAY+ purchase that raises the free tier's 5-friend crew limit and its 4-hour Festival Mode sessions to unlimited and 24 hours — safety features like locating a friend, Ghost Mode, and blocking are never gated. An internet connection is required for live updates.