Cease Instagram Map from routinely 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 provides 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 obtainable but — and now it is some of the used options on the app.

Right this moment, Instagram is doing what it does finest — copying one other Snapchat function. The primary time was with Tales in 2016, and now it is focusing on Snapchat’s different well-liked function: Snap Map.

That is proper, Instagram has launched its personal maps function referred to as Instagram Map. This lets you share your location with all your mates or a choose few. So, in the event you belief a sure group of associates or relations, you possibly can select to share your location solely with them, slightly than all of your followers — identical to Snap Map.

Instagram Map will 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 mates’ notes seem. As with Snap Maps, you possibly can discover the map to see the place your mates or creators you comply with are posting content material from. For instance, in the event you comply with a creator in New York, you possibly can 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 decide in” for Instagram Map. Nonetheless, some customers on Threads have raised considerations about their location being turned on routinely. This is easy methods to repair that and handle your location settings for Instagram Map.

The best way to flip off your location for Instagram Map

Instagram gives a number of completely different location-sharing choices

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

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

Pals will share your location with followers you comply with again. Shut Pals will solely share your location with all of the individuals you’ve got chosen as Shut Pals on Instagram, and Solely these associates will allow you to select precisely the individuals you need to share it with.

For those who’re like me and did not get this pop-up the primary time you opened Instagram Map, then you definitely’ll want to move over to the settings menu to search 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 strains within the prime proper to open settings.

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

4. Choose Location sharing.

5. Select your most popular location-sharing setting.

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

Even in the event you disable location sharing, you possibly can nonetheless entry the Instagram Map; your mates simply will not see your location on it. For those who allow location sharing, Instagram updates your location solely when the app is open or operating within the background. You can even decide out of sharing your location at sure locations or while you’re with particular individuals. Not like Snap Map, which provides real-time location updates or updates solely when the app is lively, Instagram Map doesn’t have real-time monitoring. Nonetheless, real-time location sharing is on the market by means of Instagram DMs.