Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp keeps experiencing features of one app with another. This time it has borrowed WhatsApp’s live location feature for Instagram. This feature seems to impact the app’s social connectivity by sharing real-time whereabouts. Live location on Instagram will improve user experience and engagement on the app.
Live Location on Instagram
In a blog post, Instagram announced a live location-sharing feature like Whatsapp. With this feature on Instagram, you may send location for up to one hour. Like Whatsapp, you can share the location directly both in individual 1:1 or group chats. After sharing the location, you get a reminder at the top of the chat so you don’t miss it. By default, the live location feature is off. You need to turn it on. The maximum time limit for location sharing is one hour. When you share the location, only the concerned person or group will be able to see. You can’t forward it to other chats.
Related: Learn how to Share Your Live Location on Instagram
Instagram announces sticker packs and nicknames too
Instagram also announced some other new features of Instagram. The app has now 17 new sticker packs which include 300 stickers. It is a treat for stickers-loving users. They can now diversely express their emotions and feelings with their family and friends. Like WhatsApp, you can save the sticker to the favorites, if sent by others. Plus, you can customize names in DMs by suggesting nicknames to yourself and your friends. They will only appear in DMs. You can change them anytime. You can also decide who can change the name in the chat.
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[…] recently introduced live location sharing on Instagram. In a blog post on Monday, they explained how this new feature works. This tool is already available for many apps […]