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Uber Connect – A Nice Service From Uber For Sending Packages Locally

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Uber India has facilitated a new service to its users. It is named Uber Connect. This service will allow its users to send packages to their friends or family within their city. This feature looks similar to Ola’s genie.

Uber Connect

Uber connect allows the users to send packages that can be easily transported on a two-wheeler. The package should be less than 5kgs in weight. The company also said that this feature cannot be used for sending prohibited items like recreational drugs and alcohol.

Uber launched this service in four cities in India in the first phase. The cities are Jaipur, Gurgaon, Kolkata, and Guwahati.

Users can simply download the uber app from the Google play store and when they log in with their account and enter the pickup and drop location, then along with the regular options, now the users will see another option ‘Uber Connect’. Once you confirm the trip, you will receive the details of the delivery partner. Then is you have got any special instructions for the driver, then you can always connect with the driver.

There is no confirmation from the company about the expansion of this service to the various other cities in India. But we will let you know if there is any update on that as you can also use this feature for sending packages to your dear and near ones.

Or if you don’t know about Swiggy Genie, then you must check that out, It is available in all the major cities.

Simple Uber hack allows you to book cab from your PC

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Uber is a worldwide phenomenon these days. These popular cab services have made the commuting a really simple affair for the normal people and made can services affordable and reachable to everyone.

Every one of us might be using the cab services, but here is how can improve your rides and make it a better experience.

Book Cab from PC:

Uber primarily used to be an application in the mobile phone. One can book cab only by using their phone. But there is a simple hack using which you can actually book a cab right from your PC. All you have to do is just go to the Uber mobile website  and provide it with the details of your account like giving it your number and then confirming it with the OTP you receive and then it will ask you for a few more details like your email id and name, just give it the information and complete the process of signing in. And you also need to grant it with few permissions that it would ask for location permission and you need to grant it. After that, you would be able to book cab as it will show you the map like the one in the mobile app. Enjoy cab booking from your PC.

Estimate Uber fare without using the app:

Many of us have a doubt about the fare of our ride before we actually proceed to book it and we actually would like to know it at times, do you know that you don’t have to head to the app to know the fare, here is how you can know it. You can use the Uber Estimate site to know the fares of the rides before you actually go and book the ride in the app.

Some cool Uber tricks that everyone using Uber should try

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Uber has grown up so much in the past few years and has become the main source of transportation for the people in cities. And in this piece of article we are going to learn some key Uber tricks that are going to be very much useful for you while using the Android app

Know your Rating:

Not only the drivers, but even the normal users and customers can know their ratings in the app, tap the hamburger icon on the top left side of the app’s main screen, there below your username you can see your user rating. Your ratings will start to show up there after you had finished a multiple rides in your account.

Book for someone else:

Another feature that many few people use in the Uber’s Android app is that you can actually book a ride for your family or friends. Although technically anyone can book a ride for someone else, but the company has launched this feature recently which allows the users to book a ride for their dear ones whether they have their contact in their phone or not. To do this, first you have to give app the permission to access your contact list. You can do this by going to Settings>Apps>Permissions. After setting this up, open the app and fill the destination box where to, and then enter the pick up location after which the app will show you some results, pick Someone else option. Then in the who will be riding option, just select the contact of the person for whom you would like to book the ride for. And as fr as the payment is concerned that person who is taking the ride can pay in the cash mode.

Edit your pickup location:

Sometimes, you may want to change the pickup location after the ride booking has been confirmed, but as many people don’t know how to edit the pick up location, they tend to cancel the ride and book another one with the new location, but this will lead to your poor ratings in the app and it is not the right solution, there is actually a way where you can edit the pickup location of an already confirmed ride. You can see the option edit just beside your pickup location after your ride has been booked and confirmed, just tap on and you will see the map and pin there just drag and drop that pin to edit your location. After you are done just tap on Confirm.

Enter multiple destinations:

You can actually change the destination of the ride after starting the ride, sometimes this might be the most needed feature, you can make use of this feature if you ever want to pick someone or drop someone. All you need to do is just enter the destination where you might need to pick up or drop your friend. And as soon as you reach the location, just change it and enter your destination where you would like to drop by and confirm it.

So, try these lesser known Uber tricks the next time you use the app and enjoy your ride.

Food delivery service from Uber set to launch on May 2nd

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Uber, the most popular car-booking service is now all set to launch its food delivery service in Mumbai on May 2nd. It has set up the launch as it is confirmed by the company about its launch earlier this year. UberEATS is the food ordering service that the company is going to launch in India, it has been working since 2014 which is first launched in Los Angeles.

There are many apps to help the users in getting food delivered to their doorstep and there is a lot of the rise in the online food industry in the recent days.

It is expected that UberEATS will be launched first in a few cities and then the company will expand its services to the other cities. It will be a standalone application for ordering food online from the various restaurants which will be delivered by the Uber car drivers. The company is currently accepting suggestions from the customers about their favourite food places in their city. Give your suggestions Here

The company is also inviting the various restaurants and delivery companies to show interest in joining hands with the food delivery service that it is going to launch.

Uber app has got an update with Snapchat filters

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Uber the most used transport app in the world has now come up with a latest update for its application. It has updated the app design and user interface as well.

With this new app, users can now set their ride destination as their friend’s current location. And then they have to ask their friends to share their location and their friends will be getting automatic ride updates while they are on their way to the destination. In case that person doesn’t have an Uber account, they will be receiving a message and they can choose not to share if they are concerned about their privacy and security.

With this recent update the users will also be getting Uber specific Snapchat filters during their ride and they can even share the snaps from their rides with their contacts.

These Snapchat filters are focused on the ride and allow users to share their estimated time of arrival at the destination. These new features are made available to the users with the recent update which is rolling out.

These filters from Snapchat may not be very useful and utility oriented features, but the Snapchat lovers are definitely waiting to check out the various filters available.