Instagram has rolled out a slate of new features it says will help users better connect with friends, from reposts to updating locations and more.
Meta, Instagram’s parent company, announced several new updates to the popular photo and video sharing app on Thursday including reposts, a new “Friends” tab and maps to connect further with friends through content.
Users can now repost Reels from public profiles and in-feed posts to share with their own followers.
The reposted content, which is credited to the original poster, will go to friends’ and followers’ feeds and appear in a separate profile tab to make it easier to look back at the content you’ve reposted.
Users can also “choose to responsibly share your location with friends you pick” using the new Instagram map, Meta said Thursday.
Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, shared an update on his account with a more detailed explanation, clarifying the opt-in nature of the new map feature.
“Your location will only be shared *if* you decide to share it, and if you do, it can only shared with a limited group of people you choose,” he wrote in the caption of a post. “To start, location sharing is *completely off.*”
Mosseri added that “as always with Stories, this only shows the place you tagged to your followers — it does not share your real-time or live location.”
Additionally, Meta said Thursday that parents with Instagram supervision set up for their teens “have control over their location sharing experience on the map.”
The third new Instagram feature Meta announced Thursday is the so-called “Friends” tab in Reels, which the company said will allow users to see “public content your friends have interacted with, or recommendations from Blends you’ve started, and easily start conversations about them.”