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Instagram is testing a way for users to search publicly shared Instagram Stories that are tagged with location stickers.
Instagram confirmed that it was testing the feature, but did not provide any additional details.
Josh Constine of TechCrunch reported that users who are part of the test group can view slideshows of posts from specific locations that were publicly shared by users they don’t already follow.
Constine spoke with Instagram head of product Kevin Weil at TechCrunch’s Disrupt NY 2017 event in New York Tuesday morning, and Weil said:
For a long time, I’ve felt like we’ve had these location pages—it’s been almost this hidden gem part of Instagram.
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