Live location sharing

When a nurse drives between homes, the team sometimes needs to know where they are — to redirect a closer colleague, or simply to keep an eye on a long solo run. Live location sharing posts your current position into a channel for a set length of time, then stops on its own.

Starting a share

A share belongs to one conversation — you start it from inside the channel you want the team to see it in. Here's the path from the chat workspace.

1. 1

   Open the channel

   From the chat workspace, click the channel or direct message in the conversation list. You can only share location into a conversation you're a member of.
2. 2

   Click the location-pin control in the channel header

   At the top-right of the open channel, alongside the members and notification icons, is a map-pin icon — Share my live location. Click it to open the share menu.
3. 3

   Pick a duration

   Choose how long to share — 1 hour, 2 hours, or 8 hours. The share starts straight away and ends automatically when the window closes.
4. 4

   Allow location access

   Your browser asks for permission to use your location. Allow it — Rounds can't share a position you haven't permitted. If you decline, Rounds shows a clear message rather than failing quietly.

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What teammates see

While you're sharing, an active-share strip is pinned at the top of the channel — one row per person sharing. Each row names who is sharing, how fresh the last point is ("updated 12s ago"), and an Open in Maps link that hands the latest coordinates to the device's map app for directions.

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Stopping a share

A share ends on its own when the duration runs out — but you can stop it early at any time. Open the same map-pin menu in the channel header and click Stop sharing, or use the Stop control on your own row in the active-share strip. Either way the strip clears for everyone immediately.

Good to know

• Sharing is foreground-only. Your position updates while Rounds is open and in front of you. If you switch apps or your screen sleeps, updates pause — teammates will see the point go stale rather than follow you in the background.
• Location permission is required. Rounds needs your browser's geolocation permission to share. Decline it and the share can't send a position — Rounds tells you why, it never fails silently.
• Only channel members see it. A share is visible only to the members of the channel you started it in — never the whole agency.
• One share at a time. Starting a share in a new channel ends any share you already had running.