Instagram Lets You See Your Friends' Locations Now, And Vice Versa - Here's How

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ZDNET's takeaways

• Instagram is unveiling respective caller features.
• Its caller Snapchat-style representation lets you spot wherever your friends are.
• There's besides a caller measurement to spot contented your friends are interacting with.

Meta has unveiled a number of changes to Instagram, each aimed astatine helping you amended link pinch your friends and their favourite content. A caller location-sharing representation is connected nan way, on pinch caller ways to find content.

A Snapchat-style friend representation

Maybe nan astir useful characteristic is 1 taken straight from Snapchat (whose upcoming AR glasses are looking special): Instagram Map. This characteristic shares nan past location you utilized nan app pinch group you take (followers you travel back, adjacent friends, selected friends, aliases nary one). You person to opt successful and stock your location pinch Instagram for your friends to spot your location, and you tin move this disconnected astatine immoderate time, Meta says. You tin besides unfastened nan representation astatine nan apical of your DMs database to spot contented from your friends.

If you're a genitor of a teen account, you tin power their location sharing. You'll get a notification if your teen starts sharing their location, and you tin determine whether your teen has entree to location sharing connected nan representation and who your teen shares their location with.

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Whether you're sharing your location aliases not, you tin still usage nan representation to research contented astir you. You tin browse stories from friends astatine a caller restaurant, find a caller hangout from a celebrated section creator, and more. Any contented pinch a location tagged tin show up connected nan map, Meta explained, including Reels, posts, and stories from group you follow. These will beryllium disposable for 24 hours aft they're posted.

Instagram Map is rolling retired today. 

Like what your friends are liking

Meta is besides introducing a caller Friends tab successful Reels. 

In this tab, you'll spot nationalist contented your friends person interacted pinch aliases recommendations from Blends you've started. The Friends tab will thief you spot which Reels your friends are creating and engaging with, Meta says, hopefully helping you link a small more. Friends began rolling retired earlier this year, but now it's launching globally. You person power complete what's shown successful nan Friends tab, for illustration nan expertise to hide your ain likes and comments connected Reels and to shut up activity bubbles from circumstantial people.

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You'll find nan Friends tab astatine nan apical of Reels. Tap nan "Reels" tab to return to your accustomed Reels feed.

Repost your favourite Reels and posts

A caller Repost characteristic lets you repost nationalist Reels and provender posts, making it easier for you to stock interests pinch friends. Reposts are recommended to your friends' and followers' feeds, but you tin besides find them successful a abstracted tab.

The original poster will get credit, but contented reposted by personification other mightiness show up for that person's followers, moreover if those group don't travel nan creator. To repost a Reel aliases post, pat nan repost icon. 

You tin besides adhd a statement to your repost by typing into nan thought bubble.

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