Instagram launches a new feature designed to discover popular sites

The new feature includes restaurants and popular places within the maps in true Google Maps style.

07/21/2022 14:00

Instagram has managed to become one of the most used social networks. Every day, millions of users connect to stay in touch with your friends, family or follow the lives of influencers. For this same reason, the Meta team makes changes from time to time in order to improve the user experience of its mobile applications.

Specific, the latest novelty refers to the maps of the app. When you tap a location tag in your feed or stories, or when you search for photos of a certain place, a preview of the place usually appears at the top. And, with the latest update, too the most popular sites in the area will be displayed with all kinds of details.

Instagram’s latest novelty brings popular places closer to users

As we mentioned, with the latest update launched by Instagram it will not only be possible to see any site on the map, but now they will be shown different popular places that are nearby of the detailed location in question.

To access this new map, you must have the latest version of Instagram installed on your device. With that done, you can access any map by clicking on a location label in any story, by clicking on the location that appears under the username in any publication that is displayed in the feed, or directly by searching on the social network.

When entering the new map, in addition to seeing the classic relief some popular places will be shown, with your name and all the details. In addition, at the bottom, you will have a summary of all the places people usually gowith their corresponding details and images extracted from the Instagram accounts of each establishment.

If you see a certain place, you have the opportunity to filter by the type of establishment to locate: restaurants, bars, views, hotels… Thus, planning a trip in the purest style of Google Maps will be much easier and you won’t even need to leave Instagram.

In this way, Instagram searches support local businesses in some way of each zone. If any of your friends upload a story on a certain site, you won’t even have to leave the app to be able to know all the most visited placesplan your trip or simply decide if it is a good destination based on the most visited places in the area.