The CEO of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, and the Instagram social media team deny allegations that the Instagram app tracks location information and shares it with followers who are trying to find your precise position.
Following a recent iOS upgrade, "anyone may now identify your exact location using Instagram," according to a post that went viral. This prompted lots of individuals to deny location permissions for the Instagram app in their phone's settings.
In response to the trending article, Instagram's Comms Twitter provided an explanation of its location data regulations.
The app won't share a user's location with other users, according to Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri, who says that location tag capabilities on Instagram are powered by device location.
It's not always the greatest place to obtain trustworthy information to share a popular Instagram post; sometimes, information needs to be verified. The original post makes vague references to "a recent iOS upgrade" without actually clarifying whether Instagram was responsible for such a location function.
You should disable an app from utilising your location if you are worried about it in the app settings on your devices. Both iOS and Android allow users to share a general location rather than a precise one, and both can keep track of which apps have accessed location data in the past.
