Meta has introduced new options for Instagram Direct Messages (DMs) aimed toward enhancing the best way customers join and categorical themselves with associates. These updates are a part of what the corporate calls “extra methods to precise your self and deepen friendships in DMs.”

New sticker packs for DMs

To make interactions extra expressive, Meta has launched 17 new sticker packs with over 300 stickers. These stickers permit customers to react to messages or categorical feelings when phrases are missing. Customers can even favourite stickers, making it simple to reuse stickers shared by associates or created utilizing cutouts.

Personalize nicknames in DMs

Meta now permits customers so as to add nicknames for themselves or associates in DMs, including a private contact by simplifying nicknames or including inside jokes. Nicknames solely seem in personal chats and don’t have an effect on public Instagram profiles.

Customers have full management over who can replace the nickname inside the chat. By default, solely individuals you observe could make adjustments, however this setting might be adjusted.

To set a nickname, customers can:

1. Faucet the chat identify on the high of the dialog.
2. Choose “Nickname”.
3. Choose the particular person they wish to assign a nickname to.

Location sharing in DMs

Dwell location sharing has been launched to facilitate conferences. Customers can share their stay location for as much as an hour, making coordination simpler at crowded occasions or when planning.

Necessary particulars of location sharing embrace:

• It’s personal and restricted to one-on-one or group chats.
• Dwell location sharing ends after one hour.
• Customers can cease sharing their location at any time.

This characteristic is turned off by default and is just seen to individuals within the specified chat. Meta advises customers to prioritize privateness and share their location solely with trusted people.

Availability

These are the options. Roll out This week, although location sharing is at the moment restricted to pick international locations.