Cease Instagram Map from mechanically sharing your dwell location

Instagram has developed considerably over the previous decade. It started as a easy platform for importing and sharing photographs with family and friends, however now it gives many extra options, together with Tales, Instagram Reels, and live-streaming. To place it into perspective, when Instagram first launched, direct messaging (DMs) wasn’t even accessible but — and now it is probably the most used options on the app.

In the present day, Instagram is doing what it does greatest — copying one other Snapchat characteristic. The primary time was with Tales in 2016, and now it is concentrating on Snapchat’s different fashionable characteristic: Snap Map.

That is proper, Instagram has launched its personal maps characteristic known as Instagram Map. This lets you share your location with all your pals or a choose few. So, for those who belief a sure group of associates or members of the family, you’ll be able to select to share your location solely with them, fairly than all of your followers — similar to Snap Map.

Instagram Map may be accessed within the direct message part by tapping the brand new “Map” choice, positioned close to the highest of the web page the place your pals’ notes seem. As with Snap Maps, you’ll be able to discover the map to see the place your pals or creators you comply with are posting content material from. For instance, for those who comply with a creator in New York, you’ll be able to see their location on the map and consider any Tales they’ve posted by tapping on it.

Instagram states that “sharing is off until you choose in” for Instagram Map. Nevertheless, some customers on Threads have raised issues about their location being turned on mechanically. Here is easy methods to repair that and handle your location settings for Instagram Map.

Find out how to flip off your location for Instagram Map

Instagram supplies a number of totally different location-sharing choices

If you wish to make sure that your location is turned off for Instagram Map, the method is comparatively easy, fortunately.

The primary time you open Instagram Map, you ought to be greeted with a pop-up labeled “Who can see your location” providing 4 location-sharing choices: Associates, Shut Associates, Solely these buddys, or No One (as proven within the picture above).

Associates will share your location with followers you comply with again. Shut Associates will solely share your location with all of the folks you have chosen as Shut Associates on Instagram, and Solely these associates will allow you to select precisely the folks you wish to share it with.

Should you’re like me and did not get this pop-up the primary time you opened Instagram Map, you then’ll want to move over to the settings menu to seek out it and switch it off if you want. Simply comply with these steps:

1. Go to your profile web page on Instagram.

2. Faucet the three horizontal traces within the high proper to open settings.

3. Scroll down and choose Story, dwell and placement.

4. Choose Location sharing.

5. Select your most well-liked location-sharing setting.

6. Deciding on Nobody will forestall your location from being shared in any respect.

Even for those who disable location sharing, you’ll be able to nonetheless entry the Instagram Map; your pals simply will not see your location on it. Should you allow location sharing, Instagram updates your location solely when the app is open or operating within the background. You may also decide out of sharing your location at sure locations or whenever you’re with particular folks. In contrast to Snap Map, which gives real-time location updates or updates solely when the app is energetic, Instagram Map doesn’t have real-time monitoring. Nevertheless, real-time location sharing is out there by means of Instagram DMs.