It is no surprise that, with the start of the new school year, Instagram has some new features in store interesting in its array of tools. Like any app that seeks to connect experiences and intimacy through content shared by users from different parts of the world, it's logical that the social network owned by Meta wants to prioritize the search panel options and offer us different ways to interact with the environment.
This is what is used for the map, a feature that many app users aren't familiar with yet. This new functionality is truly useful when we want to know what is happening near us or, on a trip, which places of interest are closest to us.
We'll tell you how it works so you can start using it right away.
As logic indicates, the so-called 'map of people and places' will allow us to move around different areas of the world and discover the 'landmarks of the environment', from a restaurant in the city we live in to a tourist spot we pass by on a trip. It's very simple: thanks to this smart geolocation, the app will show us the posts being made at that specific point on the globe.
Within this content that the map offers there is everything: classic posts, with their obligatory photo and its copy, and stories from accounts that have decided to upload content publicly and that can help us 'connect' with the place we are visiting, or simply new accounts to follow.
The map also gives us very valuable information for our trips, because has a list of the most popular locations of where we are, so it will be much easier to decide where we want to go if we're interested in following trends and visiting favorite monuments, hidden corners, and restaurants. Thanks to the algorithm, we'll have very useful information filtered in just two taps.
Instagram It's not an app that always makes things easy. to find their best tools. That's why we'll have to do a bit of digging to find the map. Nothing too complicated, in any case.
A suffice it exampleIf you're in the Atocha area of Madrid, the Instagram map will most likely show you the Prado Museum and the gallery of posts created there that same day by different users. Clicking on any of them will take you to a feed that groups them together.
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