Instagram expanded its DM features on Monday. Now you can share your live space with friends, convenient for meetings at concerts or other crowded places. The social platform also now lets you add nicknames in one-on-one or group chats, and there are over 300 new stickers to share in DMs.
You can enable the new location sharing feature for up to one hour. It is only shown to people in your personal DMs (one-on-one or group) and locations cannot be passed to anyone outside of the designated chat. This feature is disabled by default, and you’ll see a “Sharing your location” indicator at the top of every message header where you enable it. You can also stop sharing it manually at any time.
Nicknames allows you to add nicknames for yourself or your friends in DMs. “Share an inside joke with a nickname or simplify long usernames to make it easier for your friends to recognize you” – Instagram announcement blog post offers.
Nicknames only appear in DMs, not anywhere else on the platform. You can choose or change your nickname at any time and choose which friends in the chat are allowed to change yours. To create a moniker, tap the chat name at the top of your chat, select Nicknames, and choose the username you want to change.
Finally, Instagram has added 17 new sticker packs for DMs, making more than 300 new ones available. You can like stickers you like, including those shared by your friends.
