How do you go live with someone on instagram


How to Go Live on Instagram by Yourself or With a Guest

  • You can go live on Instagram by scrolling to the "Live" tab on the "New Post" page. 
  • When you're live, all your followers will be notified and can view your live video in real time.
  • You can also go live together with a friend, or request to join a friend's live video.

Instagram launched its live video feature in late 2016. Since then, the social media company has built up the function by adding other features like questions and the option to add friends to the live video, too. 

Going live on Instagram can be a fun way to let your followers see events happening in real time, like a concert or special event. 

Here's how to go live, go live with a friend, or request to join another user's live video.  

How to go live on Instagram

1. Open the Instagram app on your iPhone or Android. 

2. Tap the plus sign "+" icon in the top-right corner of the homepage. Alternatively, you can swipe left to get to the same screen. 

Click the plus sign icon or swipe left. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider

3. After tapping the plus sign or swiping left, you'll be taken to a New Post page. In the menu bar at the bottom of the page, swipe all the way to the right to select Live

Select Live. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider

4. A camera screen will open up. On the left side, tap the icon of four lines to add a title to your live video. You can also tap the icon of a circle with a heart in it to make your video a fundraiser. 

Customize your live video. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider

5. When you're ready to go live, tap the circle icon at the bottom of the screen and you'll be live. Active followers will be notified that you're now live. As followers begin to watch your live video, you will see their usernames appear at the bottom. 

Click the circle icon to go live. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider

6. To end a live video, tap the "X" in the top-right corner and select End Now in the pop-up. Once the live video has ended, Instagram will show you how many people viewed your video and give you the option to share the video for the next 24 hours so those who missed it can see it via your Instagram Stories. Or, you can choose to Delete video.

Click the X in the top-right corner. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider

How to go live on Instagram with a guest 

1. Open the Instagram app on your iPhone or Android. 

2. Tap the plus sign "+" icon in the top-right corner of the homepage. Alternatively, you can swipe left to get to the same screen.

3. After tapping the plus sign or swiping left, you'll be taken to a New Post page. In the menu bar at the bottom of the page, swipe all the way to the right to select Live

4. A camera screen will open up. On the left side, tap the icon of four lines to add a title to your live video. You can also tap the icon of a circle with a heart in it to make your video a fundraiser. 

5. When you're ready to go live, tap the circle icon at the bottom of the screen and you'll be live.

6. Once you're live, tap the icon of a video camera at the bottom of the screen. From here, you can type in the username of someone to go live with, or search for them in the list of viewers. Select a user to invite them to join your live video. 

Click the video camera icon. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider

7. You can only go live with someone who is already watching your live video. But, you can invite someone to join your live video who isn't already watching — to do so, type in their username, tap the circle button next to their name, and select Send Request.

Send a request to your guest and go live in a room. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider

8. Once they've accepted your request, their video should appear alongside yours in a split screen. To remove your friend from the Live video, tap the "X" at the top-right of their screen. 

9. To end your live video, tap the "X" in the upper right-hand corner and choose End Now in the pop-up. Once the live video has ended, Instagram will show you how many people viewed your video and give you the option to share the video for the next 24 hours so those who missed it can see it via your Instagram Stories. Or, you can choose to Delete video.

Note: To use Instagram's Live Rooms feature for creators, you can follow this same process to add multiple guests. 

How to request to be in another user's live video on Instagram 

1. Open another user's live video and tap Request to join.

2. Then, tap Send request to request to be in their live video.  

3. You will then receive a notification letting you know if your request has been accepted or denied. 

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Meira Gebel is a freelance reporter based in Portland, Oregon. She writes about business, culture, and technology for Insider. Her work has been featured in Digital Trends, Willamette Week, USA Today, and more. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and San Francisco State University.  Feel free to reach out to her on Twitter, where she can be found most of the time, @MeiraGebel.

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How to go live on Instagram, stream with guests & join other lives

  ❘   Published: 2022-01-24T17:31:04

  ❘   Updated: 2022-01-24T17:31:04

Throughout Instagram are various creators live streaming videos to their fans. Here’s everything we know about how to live stream on your own Instagram account. 

Instagram launched its own in-app live-streaming feature in 2016. Since then, the Meta-owned image-sharing app has built up the functionality with other features like questions and the ability to co-stream with your friends.

Much like how users go live on other apps like Twitch and TikTok, Instagram’s live video streaming provides a fun way to interact with your community in real-time.

Here’s how to go live on Instagram, including how to go live with a friend or request to join another user’s live stream.

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How to go live on Instagram

  1. Open the Instagram app on your Android or iOS device.
  2. Tap the “+” sign in the top right corner of the home page. Alternatively, you can access the same screen by swiping left.
  3. This will open the New Post page. In the menu bar at the bottom, swipe right until you can select Live.
  4. After the camera screen opens, you can tap on the four lines located on the left side to add a title or tap the heart underneath it to make your video a fundraiser.
  5. Tap the circle button at the bottom to go live. Active followers will be notified, and when they tune in, their names will appear on your screen.
  6. To end a live video, tap the “X” in the top-right corner and select End Now in the pop-up.

After the app ends the video, Instagram will show you how many people viewed your stream. You’ll also have the option to either share the video or delete it entirely.

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How to go live on Instagram with a guest

  1. Repeat steps 1-5 above for going live by yourself.
  2. Once you’re live, tap the icon of a video camera at the bottom of the screen. Search for the user you wish to invite, tap on their name and they will join your live video.
  3. To end the stream, tap the “X” in the top right corner and select End Now in the pop-up.

The default invite list is based on users who are watching your live stream.

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However, Instagram does offer the ability to search for users who are not watching and will send a request to them.

How to request to be in another user’s live video

  1. Open another user’s live video and tap Request to join – then tap Send Request in the pop-up.
  2. You will receive a notification letting you know if your request has been accepted or denied.

There’s everything we know regarding how to go live on the image-sharing social media app. For more tips and tricks for Instagram, check out our other guides.

How to invite guests to live on Instagram?

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You can invite up to three guests to your live stream in a room, or send a request to join a live broadcast of another person. There are two ways to start a live broadcast and invite guests on Instagram.

Note. The author of the broadcast can only invite guests who follow him on Instagram.

To invite a guest to live on Instagram:

Tap the icon at the top of the screen or swipe right anywhere on the ribbon.

Scroll to Live TV at the bottom of the screen.

Press .

Press . Here you will see requests to join your room. You can also click next to the username you want or search for the username at the top of the screen.

Click to invite subscribers to live.

Select Submit Request. If the guest accepts the invitation, they will appear live in the room. If the invitation is declined, a notification will appear. nine0003

To delete a user who has joined live in a room, click the x icon in the upper right corner of the frame in which it is displayed.

To request to participate in the live stream you are watching:

Click the icon at the bottom of the screen.

Press .

Click Request to Join and then Submit Request.

If your request is accepted, you will be notified that you are ready to join the room live. nine0003

Note. In the comments section, you may receive an automatic notification asking you to submit a request to participate live in the room.

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Geolocation should be understood as a point that indicates the location of a particular object. A car in a traffic jam, a place of an appointed rest, a place where your lost cat was last seen, and much more can act as such a point. Geolocation can be used to bind a certain place to it - a store, cafe, beauty salon, fitness club, and so on, and then use this place in profile description or in posts. Thanks to this, customers will be able to quickly find the location of your points of sale.

In this article, we will look at how to create a geolocation on Instagram, add a location and specify a geotag when publishing a post.

Program for promotion on Instagram - SocialKit:

  • Collecting and filtering the target audience
  • Masslooking, massfollowing, massliking
  • Delayed posting of photos, videos and stories
  • Mailing in Direct, autoresponder

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Why do you need geolocation on Instagram?

From the user's point of view, setting a geolocation in a post is an opportunity, no matter how trite it may be, to mark your location. Place of work, restaurant, popular resort and much more.

You can also use geolocation to promote your business. In addition to using a geotag in your profile, you can post using the most popular ones in your city. In addition, you can collect the target audience by geolocations located in close proximity to your points of sale using the program SocialKit , and then launch a mass subscription using the collected audience .

Each user has the ability to create their own point and attach it to the post. For example, you visited a beautiful place and marked it with geodata. This place can be seen by any Instagram user. In addition to the fact that a person will be able to see the name of the place / address, he will be able to open a map where, with the help of a guide, a route to this place will be built. This option is useful not only for commercial enterprises, but also for those who travel a lot and blog on Instagram. nine0003

Who must use this Instagram feature?

It has been said before that geolocation is of particular importance for those who are promoting their company. Thus, you will not only advertise your business, but you will also be able to find it in the "Where are you" column. The recognition of the institution due to geolocation will increase significantly, and people who are or live nearby will definitely find out about this place.

How to add a place on Instagram

The process of creating a new geolocation is quite simple, but it is not done on Instagram itself. Since Instagram is owned by Facebook, adding space happens when you create a Facebook business page for the subsequent transition to an Instagram business profile.

If it was previously created by someone else, then you can safely use this geodata. To create a geolocation, it is best to use the phone, but there are applications that are adapted for PC. nine0003

Adding geolocation via Facebook

After you have downloaded the application, you need to register a new profile or log in if you have already registered.

Next, create a business page for the company.

Enter the exact address in the information section.

This completes all the steps. The point on the map has been created, the place has been added. Now you can attach the created place in two social networks to any of your publications. nine0067

Why is Instagram not detecting location?

If your phone cannot detect your geopoint, then the reason is either in the smartphone settings or in the geosensor.


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