There are many reasons why you wouldshare your locationwith family and friends. Safety might be the top priority – whether you’re going on a first date and want your friends to have your location or you’re driving to a place you’ve never been before and want someone to keep an eye on you, it makes sense for loved ones to be able to follow you.
Convenience is another. If you’re going to a football game, and you’re trying to meet up with friends at a tailgate, trying to describe the street signs or people’s flags on their cars nearby can be more than difficult. Sharing your location can provide your friends with an easier way to track you down so you can reunite. Peace of mind is a third – if you’ve ever had a parent who constantly wants to know what you’re up to, even if you haven’t lived at home in years, sharing your location is a smart way to quell their worries without answering a million texts.
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Sharing your location has been a feature that’s been available on many smartphones and in many apps. You can share your location oniPhone,Android, or while using apps like Snapchat, thanks to theSnap Mapfeature. Now, you can share your location with friends on Instagram as well, after Meta announced the unveiling of the feature. It does take some preliminary steps to be able to do so though. Here’s how to share your location on Instagram.
Instagram is a social media app owned by Meta that allows users to follow friends and popular accounts to keep up with what’s going on around them. The newest feature is being able to share your location with others.
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Sharing your location isn’t the only new update
Meta announced earlier this week that there would be several new updates to Instagram, including some new features. Sharing your location is only one of the new ones – you can now add even more flair to your DMs with the announcement of 17 new sticker packs, which tag on more than 300 more stickers to your keyboard. Using stickers will be easier now, as you can ‘favorite’ the ones you use most frequently to keep them more accessible to you.
You can share your location, as well as a pinned location or a location you found using search, in DMs.
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How to share locations on Instagram
The feature is still being rolled out
The newest Instagram feature is being rolled out in specific countries around the world. It’s been in beta testing for some time now, and Instagram felt it was ready to launch in some major markets.
You need to check your own Instagram settings to see if it is available to you, as it is not available to everyone, even in the US.
You can share your location, as well as a pinned location or a location you found using search, in DMs. You aren’t able to share your location with anyone through an Instagram post, except for adding the location of where your post took place (which has always been an available feature on Instagram.) To do so in DMs, you need to set up location services on your phone.
For iPhone:
For Android:
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Now you may go back to Instagram and share your location. What you’ll need to do first is click into a DM with a friend.
From there, you can do three things:
Some important notes about sharing locations are that live locations are only available for one hour, and anybody who has been added to a chat after a location has been shared will not be able to see that location. Minors are only able to share locations with other teens or with adults they follow. When a location is sent, it triggers a push notification to be sent to those in the chat. After you’ve sent a location, you may stop sharing it by clickingStop sharing locationat the bottom of the message.
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