How to share location on Instagram

Key Takeaways

Safety is a top reason for sharing location with friends and family to ensure they know where you are.
Convenience is also key, making it easier to meet up or locate friends in crowded places.
Peace of mind is attained as loved ones can know your whereabouts, providing reassurance.

There are many reasons why you would share your location with 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 on iPhone, Android, or while using apps like Snapchat, thanks to the Snap Map feature. 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.

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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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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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The feature is still being rolled out

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Now you can go back to Instagram and share your location. What you’ll need to do first is click into a DM with a friend.

Open up a chat message.
Click on the + button at the bottom right of the conversation.
Tap Location.

From there, you can do three things:

You can share your live location by tapping Share your location at the bottom.
You can share a pinned location by tapping the pin icon which drops it on your current location. You can then move the pin to another spot to drop it before hitting Send pinned location.
Finally, you can tap Find a place at the top (after you tap Location.) Tap Search and type in a location. Tap on the location and then tap Send Location at the bottom.

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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 can stop sharing it by clicking Stop sharing location at the bottom of the message.