Find out how to search for a person on Google Maps and see all their reviews, contributions and recommendations without much effort.
Some of Google’s applications are surprising in the quality and quantity of functions they contain without our knowing it. Even the most used for navigation allows us to easily find a person on Google Maps. We all have a contact who contributes a lot of information in this app by writing reviews and rating businesses and tourist sites, and if we can also follow them to stay up to date with their contributions, great.
To be able to search for a person on Google Maps, we will have to make sure that the application has permission to access our contacts and that it is used with our Google user. In this way, it will be able to synchronize with the closest people and will give us the possibility of finding them and seeing what they have written recently in the application.
How to track a person on Google Maps
People interested in how to track a person on Google Maps will be surprised by the simplicity of the procedure. When we enter the application we just have to go to the “News” section (located in the menu bar at the bottom right) and in the “Follow” tab we will see recommendations of people that we can follow. We will only have to click on the “Follow” button that will appear below their profile or, if you prefer, enter in detail in the same, although you will find the same alternative.
How Google Maps contacts work
If you’ve never wondered how Google Maps contacts work, it’s time to dig deeper and see how we can get the most out of the contacts we track .
When we start following a profile on Google Maps, we receive notifications with the latest reviews or contributions that it has made within the application ecosystem, but if we access it we will find all the content created divided into several categories to make it easier for us.
For example, we added a food guru, but we want to know what he wrote in general, and not just about restaurants. To do this, we move to the right in the bar of the different categories and click on “More topics”, where we will see a breakdown of all its contributions. Now we just have to click on the category that interests us the most to know his personal opinion and find out if the places he has visited are interesting or not.
Is it possible to know the location of a person without them knowing it on Google Maps?
There is another question, much more thorny, which it is natural to ask when one wants to search for someone in the application: Can one know the location of a person without them know about Google Maps? Before getting to the nitty-gritty, it should be clarified that spying on another person’s phone without their permission is an illegal activity that violates the person’s right to privacy.
In some cases, such as the elderly, they are likely to give consent to a family member to access their phone. In these cases, we will need their Google username and password to access their account.
The process is explained in this article, and consists of opening Google on a computer and searching for “find my phone”. There we close our session, in case it was open, and enter the data of the user we want to locate (and for which we have permission). We enter the verification code, something that we will have to provide to the other person, and by doing so we can already have access to your Android phone to know where it is exactly, provided that the mobile is on, with a internet connection and location enabled.
