Maps in iOS 13 now allows you to share the estimated arrival time with your friends

IPhone phones got many advantages with the new iOS 13 update, something we have shared with you in detail in Previous articleAnd one of the features that the system has acquired in general and the Apple Maps application in particular is the feature of sharing the user's flight status with his contacts, and this feature is evident in the new Share ETA feature.

Through this new feature, your friend or relative will be able to know your destination and the approximate ETA-Estimated Arrival Time, but this is not the best thing, but the advantage about this feature is that it updates your expected arrival time constantly, so if you encounter traffic congestion, it will be updated Your expected arrival time will be further away, for example if it is five and a half, it will be changed to six in a quarter, and this is definitely automatic.

The features of the Share ETA feature in the iOS 13 update

In addition to what we have mentioned about the advantages of the Share ETA feature in iOS 13 and in the Apple Maps application, but we are not done yet, as the new feature will also allow you to implicitly manage your meetings and interviews, as if you intend to meet someone in the city You can share the approximate arrival time of the ETA directly when you start to move, then also you will be able to share your destination to know who you will meet at the location of the interview, you can also create a list of favorites of places and link them with specific people, where you can share your ETA once you set the destination with a specific person Example: You can share your approximate arrival time directly with your manager when you place your workplace as your destination, and you can also share the ETA directly with your spouse when you are on your way from work to home!

In order to be able to use the new Share ETA feature, you definitely need to update your system to the new iOS 13, then you will find the Share ETA feature inside the Maps application and also part of the CarPlay interface that you use while driving and as you can expect, the Share ETA feature only works when you use the application. Apple Maps as a navigation app.

How can you use the Share ETA feature in iOS 13?

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Start your journey inside the Apple Maps app, also turn on the navigation and driving directions (Driving Directions & Navigation).

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Swipe Up off the white bar at the bottom of the screen.

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Click the Share ETA button.

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Choose the contact you want to share your Approximate Time of Arrival (ETA) with.

What will happen is that the contact - or the person - you chose will receive a notification on his lock screen stating that you have already started your journey and that you are on your way to your destination, this notification will also contain the approximate time of your arrival based on the local time of that person’s country, and it will also be The notification recipient can track your flight through the Maps app, and Siri will prominently and visibly notify you of your expected arrival time through the Maps app.

How to Automatically Turn on Share ETA in iOS 13?

In order to make the Share ETA feature work automatically and send road information to your contacts - which you choose - the first thing you should do is add your favorite destinations, which are often the workplace and home, and iOS usually adds them automatically based on the contact card And this feature is the one that we gave an example above .. Do you remember?

After adding the destination - or place - that you prefer, such as home or work, press the (i) button to reach for more details, through this page, click on Add Person or add a person within the section on the ETA feature, from there you can add a person Or more, and then, as soon as you go to this destination that you have chosen, a notification will arrive to the person you added to know that you are on the way to it, and at that time the notification will reach him as in the following picture.

As you noticed from the picture, the ETA was updated automatically and this is what happened as a result of a traffic jam or the like, and perhaps these are the best features of the new feature Share ETA, except that you noticed anything? Yes, the above picture is a text message and not a notification as mentioned above .. Why?

This is what happens if you added someone who did not update iOS to the new version 13 or has an Android phone, in which case your phone will continue to share your route and expected time of arrival with them, but through text messages.