Cease Instagram Map from routinely sharing your dwell location

Instagram has advanced considerably over the previous decade. It started as a easy platform for importing and sharing images 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 out there but — and now it is one of the vital used options on the app.

Right this moment, Instagram is doing what it does finest — copying one other Snapchat characteristic. The primary time was with Tales in 2016, and now it is concentrating on Snapchat’s different well-liked 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 mates or a choose few. So, when you belief a sure group of mates or members of the family, you possibly can select to share your location solely with them, quite than all of your followers — identical to Snap Map.

Instagram Map could 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, when you comply with a creator in New York, you possibly can see their location on the map and look at 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 issues about their location being turned on routinely. This is easy methods to repair that and handle your location settings for Instagram Map.

The right way to flip off your location for Instagram Map

Instagram gives just a few totally different location-sharing choices

If you wish to make certain your location is turned off for Instagram Map, the method is comparatively simple, fortunately.

The primary time you open Instagram Map, you need to be greeted with a pop-up labeled “Who can see your location” providing 4 location-sharing choices: Associates, Shut Associates, Solely these good friends, 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 mates will allow you to select precisely the folks you need to share it with.

When you’re like me and did not get this pop-up the primary time you opened Instagram Map, then you definately’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 strains within the prime 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 stop your location from being shared in any respect.

Even when you disable location sharing, you possibly can nonetheless entry the Instagram Map; your mates simply will not see your location on it. When you allow location sharing, Instagram updates your location solely when the app is open or working within the background. You may as well choose out of sharing your location at sure locations or once you’re with particular folks. Not like Snap Map, which provides real-time location updates or updates solely when the app is energetic, Instagram Map doesn’t have real-time monitoring. Nonetheless, real-time location sharing is obtainable by means of Instagram DMs.