Snapchat Adds ‘Home Safe’ Alerts for Extra Safety and Assurance

Snapchat’s added a new safety feature, with “Home Safe” alerts, which will let your friends in the app know that you’ve arrived home safely whenever activated.

As you can see in this example, Snap users will be able to activate “Home Safe” within their location settings, so you can switch it on whenever you feel the need to add an extra level of transparency.

So if you’re walking home at night, for example, and your friends are concerned, or maybe you’re worried that you’re potentially being followed. Now you’ll have another option to ensure that your Snap friends, at the least, know that you got home safe. Or you didn’t.

As explained by Snap:

“Starting today, a new feature called ‘Home Safe’ will give Snapchatters a simple way to let a friend know when they’ve returned after being out and about – without having to remember to send a message.”

Users will be able to set their home location by tapping their Bitmoji on the Snap Map, then selecting “My Home.”

“Once you set this up, it’s only ever visible to you and the friends you've chosen to share your location with on Snap Map.”

Indeed, Snap says that it’s developed Home Alerts with privacy in mind, with alerts only able to be sent to friends that you already share your location with.

Your arrival notification will be sent out one time, then it’ll be deactivated automatically, so you won’t have to worry about sending out alerts to all of your Snap friends every single time you arrive home safely. It’ll only happen when you’ve manually chosen to activate the notification.

It’s another security measure which could help to provide peace of mind to your Snap friends, while also giving you some additional assurance that people know where you’re at, in case something happens.

And while friends can already track you on the Snap Map, having a message that reassures them of your safe arrival could be another simple benefit, for friends and likely parents as well.