How to stop sharing your location and still see your friends

Quick answer

Stop sharing by disabling Find My sharing, Snap Map Ghost Mode, WhatsApp live location and Google Maps sharing. Parages then keeps you near friends with zero location sharing.

Cutting off the apps that broadcast your dot takes a few minutes. In Find My, stop sharing per person; on Snap Map, switch to Ghost Mode; in WhatsApp, end any live share; under Google, pause Location Sharing in Maps. Once the broadcasts are off, you do not have to go dark on your friends. Parages keeps a private list of where they live and taps you when you pass near, with the whole check running on your phone.

In one sentence

Parages pings you when you pass near a friend. It tracks nobody.

How it works

Add your friends

Their neighborhood, not their exact address. Only you see your list, and nothing is shared.

Live your life

No continuous tracking, no shared location. Parages sleeps in your pocket.

Get a hello

You pass near a friend, and your phone says “You’re 300 m from Thomas 👋”. Right when it matters.

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Frequently asked questions

You note roughly where your friends live. Your phone watches for when you come within a few hundred metres of one of them and sends a quiet notification. No one shares a live location.

Yes, that is the whole design. The proximity check runs locally on your phone, so you are alerted while your position never leaves the device.

Be there at launch.

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