Instagram is taking away your photo maps. The photo-sharing app has begun to remove its photo map feature, with some users already seeing the option removedindex when visiting other profiles.

The company started removing the features for some users last week. For now, you can still see your own photo map, but expect that to change in the near future, too.

The company has decided that Photo Map was not widely used, so are removing the feature and focusing on other priorities. It’s a big change for the app that started as a location-based check-in app, like Foursquare.

The company is more focused on competitors like Snapchat. One of the company’s “other priorities” is likely Instagram Stories, the Snapchat clone that rolled out last month.

Check-in apps like Foursquare, meanwhile, have faded from popularity.  Geotags for locations aren’t disappearing. You’ll still be able to click on a location tag in an individual post and see other photos from that location as well as a small map.

But when you go to someone else’s profile, there will no longer be a separate tab to view all their geo-tagged photos on a world map.

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