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Loiter makes inviting friends simple. With just several taps you can invite friends to a meet-up anywhere in the world, including the places you have previously marked as favourites.

Start by navigating to the desired location on the map and find the place for the meet- up – like this great Chinese restaurant called ‘Beijing Dumpling’:

Tap the place marker and the point-of-interest pop-up will appear – like this:

You can also long-press on any (un-marked) location on the map – like in the middle of a park – to bring up the point-of-interest pop-up for that spot – like this:

Then tap the meet-up button (the middle one) and the meet-up organiser popup will appear – like this:

Then you select whom you’d like to invite and for what time but tapping the “select who to invite..” and “select when…” dropdown buttons.

Just tap a row to select a friend to like to invite (and tap again to unselect).

And likewise, scroll the date and time to select the meet-up time.

Almost done. You can also caption the meeting like this:

And then you are set to send off the invite. Your invitees will be notified of your invitation, which they can either accept or decline, or start a conversation about…

After you tap the “Send meet-up invite” button you will see at meet-up marker on the map – like this:

And a corresponding item in the Live Bar – like this:

Tapping either of these will bring up the meet-up pop-up – like this:

By tapping the “accepted” dropdown button you will be able to see who has accepted your meet-up invite and who has declined. There are also buttons with which you can set a reminder for your meet-up and , to start a conversation with all the invitees.

You can view all the meet-ups you have organise, as well as those you have been invited to, by tapping the meet-ups button at the top of the screen:

And then selecting either the “Invites” or the “My meet-ups” tab.

If you tap the row for one of your meet-ups you’ll be able to make modifications, such as changing the time, the caption and inviting more friends – and then tapping the “Update” button.

A meet-up can be cancelled using the red “Cancel” button.

On the other side, your invitees will receive a notification and will see a meet-up invite pop-up – like this:

Here they will be able to either accept or decline the invitation. After accepted there will be the option to set a reminder for the meet-up and after declining the invitation will be able to be deleted.

That’ s it. Happy meet-ups.

Sharing your location with selected friends is one of the core features of Loiter. Posting you location is very straightforward – just a couple of taps.

Please note : Loiter does not track your location – friends only see the location you actively share with them, and then only the friends you select for each post.

The “post location” button is in the bottom left hand corner of the screen and looks like this:

Tapping this button will bring up the “share location” popup centred on your current (circular blue) location map marker – like this :

The only other thing you must do to share your current location is to select with whom you want to share. This is done by tapping the “select friend…” bar. That will bring up the friend picker widget – like this :

Simply select the friends you’d like to share with and then tap the “select friends…” bar to close the friend picker.

You could now tap the blue “Post your location” button and the friends you selected would be notified that you have just shared your location with them.

But there are a couple more details you could share in the post, including a place name, a caption and even a photo.

To add a place name, tap the “select a nearly place..” bar and the place-picker widget will be displayed listing places (points of interest) in your vicinity (within a 65 metre radius).

Tapping a place from the dropdown list will selected it and close the widget. You can clear a previous selection by swiping down and tapping the “clear selection” button.

Then once again, simply tap the blue “Post your location” button and your selected friends will be notified that you are sharing your location with them.

That’s the basics of sharing your location with Loiter. You can also add a caption and a photo to your post which are both self-explanatory.

Additional information:

• Loiter only allows you to post from your current location.
• You can only select places that are in our current vicinity.
• Any photos you wish to attach to your post must be taken right there and then. If you take a photo but move away from the location where the photo was taken before you actually make the post, the photo will expire.
• Posted locations automatically expire when Loiter detects that you have moved away from that location. And the friends with whom you shared the location will be be able to see that you have left that location. NOTE however that Loiter does not track your location – friends only see the location you share with them, and then only the friends you select for each post.
• You can have multiple live location posts that have been sent to different groups of friends. But you can not have more than one live location share with any one friend.