Since its release in 2009, WhatsApp has continued to develop features. Slowly but surely, entering its 13th year, WhatsApp can not only be used as a place to chat, but can also track someone's whereabouts through the share location feature.
This feature has been around for a long time, but this feature is undergoing development so that it can track someone's whereabouts live or directly. It's easy, you just ask your interlocutor to share your location or share your location via WhatsApp.
Vice versa, you can send your location to other users. This feature is very useful for monitoring someone's whereabouts, especially if you are on an appointment or to tell the address of a place.
How to share location
To be able to track or track your whereabouts, it's really easy! Open a chat or group chat on WhatsApp, then press the share document or attach file symbol. Click the Location feature in the options presented and Share Live Location.
To use this feature, you can specify the duration you send, which is 15 minutes, 1 hour, or 8 hours. After the elapsed time, Live Location will automatically stop.
However, you can still track the whereabouts of your chat friends, namely through the Command Prompt, which can only be done on WhatsApp Web on a computer. Want to know how?
Here's how to find out someone else's location via WhatsApp with the Command Prompt:
Start by opening WhatsApp Web and starting a chat with the person you want to track down to get their IP address.
Close all applications running in the background (except the browser you are using) to prevent interrupting the process.
Then on your keyboard, press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to open the task manager.
Press Win + R on your keyboard to open the Run function on the keyboard. Type Cmd then press Enter.
In the Command Prompt that appears, type netstat-an then press Enter. Take note of the IP address that appears before closing the command prompt.
Then you can go to www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/ and enter the IP address to find out the approximate location of a person.
That's an easy way to find out the location of other people via WhatsApp. Use this feature wisely.