
Written By Deepti Ratnam
Published By: Deepti Ratnam | Published: Mar 02, 2025, 11:04 AM (IST)
Instagram keeps on bringing several new features to enhance the user experience on its platform. The meta-owned instant messaging giant continues to revolutionize the social media landscape. Instagram is committed to bringing creativity and connectivity seamlessly and has made the platform indispensable with over a billion active users worldwide. Today, in this article, we will discuss one such feature that enhances the overall experience and that feature is sharing your live location on the platform with your family, friends, and loved ones.
In this guide, we’ll walk you through the easy steps to send your live location on Instagram, ensuring you can share your experiences and stay connected with others seamlessly. Through this feature you will be able to share live location of up to 1 hour with your friends. This feature is also going to be useful when meeting with friends at a special place, in which you will be able to track your friend’s location even in a crowded place. The thing to note is that you can use this feature only in DM. Apart from this, this feature will work in one-to-one chat or group chat.
STEP1: First of all, install the Instagram app on your smartphone.
STEP2: After this, go to the DM section.
STEP3: After this, open the chat to which you want to send your live location.
STEP4: Now you have to go to the text bar. Here you have to click on the + icon next to the recording, photo, emoji.
STEP5: Now two options will open in front of you, which are Location and Imagine. To send the location, tap on the location option.
STEP6: Here you can search for a place by going to the Find a Place option. Apart from this, there is also an option to Send Pinned Location. This option is used to send pinned location on the map.
STEP7: After selecting the location, you have to tap on the Share Your Location option. After this your location will be sent to the other person.