Real-time location will be shared for one hour. After that time, the option will be automatically removed | Photo Archive
Instagram added a new feature that allows share location in real time with other users for a period of one hour and through direct messages. The feature was added to make it easier for people to meet in the same place or know where their friends are.
The social network owned by Meta continues to implement new options and tools in direct messages to improve the way users stay in touch.
In this sense, Instagram included the new real-time location function, as well as sharing a specific location marked on the map.
By sharing location, users can more easily manage coordination of times and place of arrival for a meeting between friends.
Specifically, Instagram noted that real-time location can only be shared privately in direct messages. It can be done in an individual or group chat. After being active for an hour, the location will be deactivated automatically.
Location in real time It cannot be forwarded to other chats. In addition, Instagram will display an indicator at the top of the chat indicating that the location is being shared. With all this, Instagram stressed the importance of always taking into account the privacy of users and, therefore, of sharing the location only with people they know.
New nicknames and stickers
In addition to shared locations, Instagram also announced other new features for direct messages. On the one hand, it included 17 new sticker packs, comprising over 300 designs to share.
Instagram strengthens direct messages with a big update. Location in real time, aliases for contacts and new sticker packages as the main new features. pic.twitter.com/N5VpcfHIOL
— Daniel Bueno (@danielbuenotech) November 27, 2024
Continuing with the ‘stickers’, users now You can mark some of these drawings as favorites. within a chat. This way you can reuse those that have been shared by other users or that have been created with the snipping tool.
Users can now customize your names in direct messagesadding a nickname for themselves or their friends, in order to further personalize the experience.
This function allows get a closer relationship between usersas well as simplifying long names to make them simpler. Nicknames only appear in users’ direct message chats, but do not change the name anywhere else on Instagram.
Likewise, users can change their nickname at any time, as well as decide who can change the name of the rest of the users. users within a group chat.
To create a nickname, simply tap the chat name at the top of the conversation and then select the ‘Nicknames’ option. Then you must insert the username of the person to whom you want to add a nickname in the chat.
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