Instagram today has announced the rollout of @mention Sharing, with this feature when someone mentions you in their story, you’ll be able to share that photo or video into your own story. Continue reading “Instagram update brings mention Sharing to Photos, Videos in Stories”
It was reported yesterday that Instagram is working on bringing long-length videos and now according to close sources to Techcrunch, the company will offer a dedicated space featuring scripted shows, music videos and more in vertically oriented, full-screen, high-def 4K resolution. Continue reading “Instagram said to introduce Snapchat Discover-like 4K video hub on June 20”
Instagram might be planning on introducing an ability to allow users to post hour long videos soon and way off video length constraints. This would open to new possibilities and creative flexibility. This also brings Instagram closer to YouTube and its own parent company, Facebook. Continue reading “Instagram said to allow users to post hour long videos soon”
Instagram ditched the reverse chronological feed for an algorithm in July 2016 and today the company has showcased a new feed ranking algorithm. The company will use machine learning to create a unique feed for everyone. Since it is focused on machine learning, even if you follow exact same accounts as someone else, your feed will be unique and depend on how you interact with those accounts. Continue reading “Instagram News Feed uses machine learning to create unique feed for everyone”
Instagram is now rolling out an update that brings option to mute posts, giving you more control over what posts you see on your news feed. This will hide posts from specific accounts when you mute them instead of unfollowing. Continue reading “Instagram now lets you mute profiles to hide posts in News Feed”
Instagram’s news feed algorithm always makes it hard to determine when you have finished viewing all the latest posts. However, it looks like Instagram is now planning on fixing it as the company is testing a new ‘You’re All Caught Up’ which will let users know when all the unseen posts from the last 48 hours have been viewed. Continue reading “Instagram testing ‘You’re All Caught Up’ feature to improve digital health”
Instagram is now rolling out the ability to share feed posts directly to stories, after testing it earlier this year. This makes it easier to share a post that you come across your feed directly to stories for your friends and followers to see. Continue reading “Instagram now lets you share feed posts directly to stories”
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom has just confirmed that the company is building ‘time spent’ usage insight tool following Google’s Dashboard feature with new time management controls. Incidentally, there is a code present in the Instagram app that reveals “Usage Insights” feature that will show users the “time spent”. Continue reading “Instagram is working on ‘time spent’ usage insight tool”
Instagram is rolling out interactive emoji slider sticker for polls; It is a fun new way to spice up your Instagram stories polls. As usual, you can ask questions in your stories and add polls, and from there you have to choose an emoji for your question, add a layer of emotional context that helps those answering understand your tone and answer accordingly. Continue reading “Instagram Stories gets interactive emoji slider sticker for polls”
Instagram said to be working on bringing ‘Music Stickers’ and auto-song detection for Stories. The ‘Music Stickers’ found inside its Android app could let you search for and add a song to your posts and the company is also said to be working on detecting songs you’re listening to and display the artist and song title as just a visual label. Continue reading “Instagram Stories could get ‘Music Stickers’ and auto-song detection”
Instagram today is rolling a bunch of new features including GoPro, Spotify integration, Video calls, AR camera effects and more. Instagram now allows users to post directly to Instagram Stories from apps like Spotify and GoPro, it also mentioned that it will bring the ability to share to Stories to many other apps in the future. Continue reading “Instagram Stories gets GoPro and Spotify integration, Video calls, AR camera effects and more”
Instagram will soon be introducing a bunch of new features; mute button, reactions to Stories, slo-mo recording and more. All these features are currently said to be in the testing phase. Twitter user @wongmjane has dug deep into the app’s code and has seemingly found evidence to the said features. Continue reading “Instagram said to be testing mute button, reactions to Stories, slo-mo recording and more”
Earlier this month Instagram confirmed that it is testing a download button which will let you download your complete data and today the company is rolling out the feature to everyone. Dubbed ‘Data Download’ will allow you “download your information so if you wish to leave for another photo sharing network. Continue reading “Instagram ‘Data Download’ tool lets you download your data”
Instagram is bringing a much-needed feature to its stories. It will now let you upload multiple photos and videos to stories at once. You will now see a new icon in the upload media at the top right corner of the screen. Tap the button and start selecting photos or videos. Continue reading “Instagram now lets you upload multiple photos and videos to stories at once”
After facing a lot of criticism for not having an option for data portability like how Facebook allows you to download your data. Instagram today has confirmed that it is building a new data portability tool, and you’ll soon be able to download a copy your data on Instagram, including your photos, videos, and messages. Continue reading “Instagram will soon let you download your data”
