Instagram has been tinkering with its app a lot this year, from a new icon to support for multiple accounts to a Snapchat-like feature called Instagram Stories. But the app isn’t just adding, now it’s taking away.
People started noticing that the icon for the photo map is missing when they look at other people’s profiles. Instagram confirmed in a statement to Mashable that the feature would eventually disappear from your own profile, too: “Photo Map was not widely used, so we’ve decided to remove the feature and focus on other priorities.”
The Photo Map is the sole Instagram feature that isn’t monetised. Maybe that’s part of the reason the feature was dropped: In a social app all about sharing a curated, polished, design-magazine-worthy view of your own life, the Photo Map feature feels personal and private. The only way to share your map would be to screenshot it. If you’re looking at the map view, you see the location but not the photos. If you tap a stack of photos to look at them, they obscure the map. But sharing isn’t the point at all when it’s just so pleasing to scroll around the map, zooming in and out to recall where all your Instagram moments took place.
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