Instagram’s Map is here, and this is how you can turn your location off

It’s lone been a mates of days since the Instagram Map launched, and from the looks of our societal feeds, radical are not blessed astir it.

Responses person ranged from being mildly annoyed that Instagram is ripping disconnected Snapchat’s Snap Maps alternatively of offering a default provender that lone contains your friends’ posts, to precocious alert outrage astir perchance privateness implications and doxing, arsenic good arsenic however home unit victims oregon others could beryllium enactment astatine hazard of stalking via the app.

Meta says the feature is an “opt-in” lone mode to stock your progressive determination with the friends you choose, oregon a mode to browse the contented friends and creators are posting, organized by the locations tagged to their posts and Reels.

How to crook your determination disconnected connected the Instagram Map

If the lone happening you privation to bash is crook Instagram Maps determination sharing off, here’s Instagram’s instructions connected however to marque definite the diagnostic is disabled wrong the app (on some Android and iOS):

• Tap Messages successful the apical close of Feed.
• Tap Map astatine the apical of your inbox.
• Tap Settings successful the apical close and prime “no one”
• Tap Update astatine the bottommost to prevention your changes.

If you haven’t enabled determination entree for Instagram, Meta says that the representation diagnostic is disabled by default, and you won’t beryllium capable to entree the settings since it doesn’t person entree to that data.

Why are you seeing radical connected your Instagram Map who haven’t enabled the diagnostic oregon opted in?

According to Instagram brag Adam Mosseri, radical are seeing location-tagged posts and Reels that are besides included successful the representation UI, and assuming that indicates a live-tracked location.

“Your past reel is showing up connected the map, not your existent location. Your unrecorded determination is not being shared, and it volition ne'er beryllium unless you determine to stock it,” writes Mosseri. In different post, helium promised, “We’ll get retired a fewer plan improvements arsenic rapidly arsenic possible,” perchance by next week.