In August we announced Instagram Map, a new feature to stay up-to-date with friends. You can opt in to sharing your last active location with friends you choose, and you can turn it off anytime. You can also open the map to see content your friends and favorite creators are posting from interesting or fun locations. No matter how you use the map, you and your friends have a new, lightweight way to connect with each other.

Improvements to the Map feature since the initial rollout

Now, the feature rolls out in India, with several improvements to user education and the product experience since the initial launch of the Map. 

• To help make it clearer if you’re sharing your location on the map, you’ll now see a more prominent, persistent indicator at the top of the map reminding you whether or not you’re sharing location, or if you have your device location off entirely. There is also an indicator under your profile photo in the Notes tray that clarifies if you’re not sharing your location.

• We also heard from people who thought that sharing content with a tagged location meant they were sharing their location on the map. We’ve removed profile photos from showing on top of the content to help clarify that it’s not someone’s location. 

• Additionally, we show an educational reminder that when you add a location tag to a story, reel, or post, it will populate on the Map. 

• Lastly, to help reduce confusion around how your location tagged content appears on the Map, we have added a preview to show you how your content will look on the Map when you add a location to your Instagram content.