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Distance searches

Find contacts by how far away they live.

“My contacts within 5 miles of me” finds contacts by distance. Buckets reads each contact address, finds it on the map and measures the straight-line distance from your location. Results show the distance and a map. Miles or kilometres follows your phone’s country.

Each contact needs a full address with a postal code. An incomplete address cannot be found on a map and the contact is excluded. The line under the search shows how many addresses were found.

A distance search needs permission to see where you are, and a connection to look each address up on the map. Each address is looked up once, and only when you ask a distance question.

Distance searches and the Map screen are premium features. Turn them on in Settings under Premium features; until then a distance search offers the Premium features screen instead of an answer.

A place is matched first by name: a photo the phone labelled with the venue's name is that venue's. Where the phone named only the street, the photo has to have been taken within about 30 metres of the contact's address. Only photos the phone placed on the map and contacts whose address was found count; a venue that was never photographed with location on, or saved as a contact or bucket, does not appear.