Instagram today announced several updates for direct messages on its platform, including location sharing, nicknames, new sticker packs, and more.

Instagram, one of the world’s most popular social media platforms with over two billion active users, continues to enhance its user experience with exciting new

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.

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

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.

Headlining the updates today (Nov 26) is the ability for users to share their live location via DMs. According to a Newsroom post, Instagram states you can share your location "privately" in one-on-one and group chat DM threads. The platform states your shared location in a chat will "disappear after one hour."

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.

Instagram has just announced a new feature which will allow users to share their exact live location in private direct messages.

Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. It's one of the ways we keep the lights on here. Click here for more.A new Find My Friend-like feature lets you share your location through Instagram DM for an hour.

Instagram keeps experimenting with new features to give the best to its users and sometimes it also borrows features from another Meta-owned platform, i.e., WhatsApp. Instagram seems to have done it again by borrowing a feature that many of us might be using on WhatsApp often.

Instagram said on Monday that it will allow users to disclose their whereabouts with their friends through direct messages, or DMs. This feature suggests