{"id":221643,"date":"2017-07-26T09:26:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T07:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=221643"},"modified":"2017-07-26T09:30:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T07:30:34","slug":"googles-trusted-contacts-app-now-on-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/221643-googles-trusted-contacts-app-now-on-ios.html","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Trusted Contacts app now on iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/maps\/trusted-contacts-now-ios\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Google is bringing Trusted Contacts to iOS<\/strong><\/a>, which follows the release of the Trusted Contacts app on Android in December.<\/p>\n<p>Trusted Contacts is a personal safety app that opens a line of sharing between a user and their friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>Trusted Contacts lets users alert their friends and family to where to find them in an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Even in situations where a user is unable to get their phone, their trusted contacts can find them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a friend or family member asks for your location and you don&#8217;t respond, your location is automatically shared with your loved one,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n<p>Users can also proactively share their location using the app.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/218536-chromes-built-in-ad-blocker-will-kill-torrent-sites.html\">\u201cChrome\u2019s built-in ad blocker will kill torrent sites\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is bringing Trusted Contacts to iOS, which allows users to let contacts know they are safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":221645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[167,44851],"class_list":["post-221643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-google","tag-trusted-contacts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221673,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221643\/revisions\/221673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}