Key Takeaways
Reposts are a new feature that allows you to share your favorite posts and public reels and discover what your friends are liking.
Now, you have the option to use the Instagram map to responsibly share your location with friends of your choosing.
Instagram’s Latest Update Focuses on Meaningful Connections
With Reels’ new “Friends” option, you can simply initiate discussions about the material your friends have liked, made, republished, or commented on.
Meta introducing a number of new features today to help you interact with your friends on Instagram more effectively. Instagram has long been used by people to share their location and activities. You and your friends may now communicate more easily through the Instagram material you’re enjoying thanks to reposts, the map, and the “Friends” button in Reels.
Share Your Favorite Posts and Reels Again
Reposts let you to share your interests with your friends more easily by allowing you to repost feed posts and public reels. You can always go back and review your reposts because they will be suggested to your friends’ and followers’ feeds and appear in a different tab on your profile.
The original poster is given credit for reposts. If you’re a creator, this implies that if someone else reposts your work, it could be suggested to their followers, even if they don’t follow you. Creators now have the chance to reach a wider audience.
Tap the repost icon to share a clip or post again. By filling inside the thinking bubble that displays on the screen and clicking save, you may also include a message with your repost.
Reach Out to Friends Through the Instagram Map
Use the Instagram map to stay in touch with your pals. You may select whether or not to share your most recent active location with pals, and you can stop at any moment. You may also view the map to check what your favorite creators and friends are sharing from exciting or intriguing places. You and your friends now have a new, portable method to communicate with one another, regardless of how you utilize the map.
Unless you choose to allow it, location sharing is disabled. You have options to personalize this experience if you choose to share your location with friends:
You may decide whether to share your location with close friends, friends (those you follow back), certain specific friends, or no one at all.
You have the option to withhold your location from certain individuals or locations.
- Your location is updated anytime you launch the app or go back to it if it has been running in the background if you enable location sharing. Location sharing can be disabled at any moment.
- You have control over your teen’s location sharing experience on the map if you are a parent who has supervision set up for them. If your adolescent begins sharing their whereabouts, you will be notified, allowing you to have crucial discussions about how to share with peers in a secure manner. On the map, you can see who your adolescent is sharing their location with and determine whether they have location sharing enabled.
- You may use the map to explore location-based information regardless of whether you want to reveal your location. There is material to help you and your friends engage with the world around you, whether it’s reading about pals who attended a concert or discovering a new spot to hang out from a local creator’s reel.
- Learn more about sharing location.
The map can display any material that has a location tag, such as:
- Reels, posts, and narratives from individuals you follow are accessible for 24 hours following their publication.
Notes from individuals you both follow, accessible around-the-clock
The Instagram map is located at the top of your direct message inbox. Today, this functionality is being made available in the US; other countries will follow shortly.
Discover What Your Friends Are Having Fun With
We’re launching Friends, a new option in Reels that allows you to quickly start discussions about public material your friends have interacted with or suggestions from Blends you’ve begun. You can see which reels the people you care about the most are making and interacting with with the aid of your friends. We are thrilled to be launching Friends worldwide after beginning its rollout earlier this year.
Tap the “Friends” link at the top of Reels to open your Friends tab. Tap the “Reels” tab to get back to your regular Reels stream. Additionally, we’re introducing restrictions for what appears in the Friends tab, including as the option to mute activity bubbles from particular users you follow and to conceal your own likes and comments on reels.
