Safety centre
Safety centre
The tools that keep you in control on Friendo, tips for sharing safely, and where to get help.
If anyone is in immediate danger, call 999. If a child is at risk you can also report to CEOP (National Crime Agency).
Your controls
Location: off until you choose
New accounts never share location. When you switch it on, you pick each friend and whether they see your approximate area (the centre of the roughly 1 km square you’re in) or your precise spot. You can change it any time on the Friends map screen or a friend’s profile.
Ghost mode
One tap hides you from everyone on the map and deletes your stored position, whatever you’ve set for each friend.
No location history
We keep only your latest position — overwritten each time — and delete it after the time you choose (a few hours at most). Positions are only sent while the map screen is open.
Block
Blocking someone stops them seeing you, sending you snaps or pokes, adding you, or seeing you on the map. Unopened snaps between you are withdrawn. They aren’t told.
Report
Report a snap, a status or a person from inside the app. Reports go to a real moderator, most serious first. Reporting a view-once snap keeps it safe for the moderator.
Remove a friend
Removing a friend stops snaps, pokes and location sharing between you straight away.
Tips for sharing safely
- Only add people you know in real life. Friendo has no strangers by design — keep it that way.
- Precise location is for your closest people. Approximate is enough for most friends.
- Think before you snap. View once can’t stop a screenshot or someone filming the screen with another phone.
- Never send intimate images under pressure, and never share anyone else’s. It can be a crime.
- Nobody should make you share your location. If a partner or anyone else insists on knowing where you are all the time, that can be a sign of controlling behaviour — the organisations below can help.
- Check your devices. Me → Your devices shows where you’re signed in; sign out of anything you don’t recognise.
Where to get help
- Revenge Porn Helpline — support if intimate images of you have been shared, or someone threatens to.
- StopNCII.org — helps stop intimate images being shared on participating platforms.
- Report Harmful Content — advice on reporting harmful content online.
- Suzy Lamplugh Trust (National Stalking Helpline) — if you’re being stalked or followed.
- Refuge — support for domestic abuse, including tech abuse.
- Samaritans (call 116 123) and Shout (text SHOUT to 85258) — if you’re struggling.
- Internet Watch Foundation — report child sexual abuse imagery anonymously.
- Report Fraud — scams and fraud. True Vision — hate crime. Police (101) — non-emergencies.
Help links checked 21 October 2026.