Instagram has added three new features to make direct messages (DMs) more engaging. You can now share your location with a friend or a group for up to one hour, use over 300 new stickers, and add nicknames for yourself and your friends.

Instagram spruced up its DM features on Monday. You can now share your live location with friends, handy for meetups at concerts or other crowded places. The social platform also now lets you add nicknames in one-on-one or group chats,

Instagram is adding the ability to share your live location with friends in your DMs for up to one hour at a time so you can find each other when arriving at concerts, outings, and other gatherings. The feature works within Instagram’s direct messages, which also gets a few other new features, including sticker packs and nicknames.

Meta now allows users to add nicknames for themselves or friends in DMs, simplifying usernames or adding a touch of personalization through inside jokes. Nicknames appear only in private chats and do not affect public Instagram profiles.

To share your live location, you just need to open a direct message with a friend or a group chat. From there, you can choose to share your live location for up to an hour. If you'd rather not share your live location constantly, you can also just drop a pin on the map to show people where you are.

Instagram is introducing the ability for users to share their locations with their friends via DMs, the company announced on Monday.

A private experience. The live location sharing feature is designed with user privacy in mind. It only shows the shared location to those involved in a private c

Instagram announced in a blog post that its rolling out a live location-sharing feature in some countries, though it didnt say which ones (via The Verge ). Youll be able to share your live location for up to an hour or drop a pin on the map so you can find your friends and family when arriving at concerts, outings, and other gatherings.

Meta has announced a bunch of new features for Instagram. The social media platform is getting support for live location sharing, allowing users to share their location through direct messages.

Instagram is adding one of Snapchat's best features so you can share your live location via DM. The social media site, owned by Meta, explained in a blog post on Monday how the new feature works. Also: You'll be able to reset your Instagram algorithm soon - here's how Location sharing is off by default.

Meta announced new updates for Instagram on Monday, unveiling features to enhance private messaging. Among these is the Instagram DMs location-sharing tool, which aims to make coordinating in-person gatherings easier.