The incoming v1.6.5 version of Micro Social contains a lot of UI improvements and a few new features to keep you posting to the community. The biggest of which is the ability to add locations to your posts.

You’d be forgiven for even knowing micro.blog supports location ‘check ins’ but it’s something that many people enjoy posting. The issue before was the difficulty of doing so without a complicated set-up – Micro Social smooths this out using Apple Maps.

By tapping the three dots when writing a new post, you can choose to add a location. The app offers a search to help you find the location using the Apple Maps lookup, and you can use your location to narrow down the search if you wish.

Privacy: At no point does the app collect any data on you including location. This uses on device locations, and all of this data is controlled by Apple Maps on your device. You can decide to send the co-ordinates of this, the URL of the location or no data at all, with your blog post.

This will add the location name and a pin at the start of your post. Micro Social also notices these pins in your timeline and makes the post cleaner to see and easier to interact with. All on device so your privacy is protected.

Long Press

You can now long press the FAB when active to quickly check in at a location or post a photo without going into the new post and adding extra info.

If you like to check out these new features download Micro Social today.