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If you’ve been waiting for the perfect moment to slide into your crush’s DMs, now might not be the time. Unfortunately, the gods of Instagram can work in mysterious ways. People are reporting that ...

Instagram is adding the ability to share your live location with friends in your DMs for up to one hour at a time so you can find each other when arriving at concerts, outings, and other gatherings.

Instagram spruced up its DM features on Monday. You can now share your live location with friends, handy for meetups at concerts or other crowded places. The social platform also now lets you add ...

Meta rolled out updates for two of its social media networks, including the ability for Instagram users to edit messages within 15 minutes of sending them and gestures in the Threads app for quick ...

Sliding into Instagram DMs just got a lot more fun. On March 31, Instagram launched a handful of new Direct Message features like the ability to share music, create a poll in chats, and to reply while ...

After facing criticism over failing to protect users from abusive accounts, Instagram has been steadily introducing new safety tools over the last few years. Today, the company is launching new tools ...

Instagram is down for many users in the U.S. and some other countries.

Instagram is one of the most used social media platforms, and the end-to-end encryption on the app allows the messages shared via the app to be safe and secure. The feature is designed in a way to ...

Instagram is developing a new unsolicited sensitive photo protection tool, the Mark Zukerberg-owned tech giant, Meta, confirms. It should allow its users to block unwanted content from slipping into ...