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.

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."

To make IRL hangouts easier, you can now share your location in a direct message with a friend or a group for up to one hour.

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.

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

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 has introduced a new feature within its in-app DMs, as it now lets users share their live location with each other.

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

Instagram is rolling out a new feature that lets users share their live location with friends and family via direct messages (DMs), among other upgrades.

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.