Instagram Plans To Introduce Five New Features for Stories and Posts
Instagram, A Photo and video-sharing social networking service, is now thinking to give a new feel to its customers. It plans to add several new functional features to its interface.
Well, It is a good move to offer as much functionality as possible to its users. Twitter user wongmjane posted about various tests Instagram has conducted or is currently testing.
For this implementation, we are just waiting until it’s applicable. Among these new features, the video calling feature is currently available for users on Snapchat.
NEW screenshots of Instagram's incoming video call feature in action
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— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) April 27, 2018
Furthermore, users can expect more attractive stories by adding more reactions to it. For this Instagram is looking to borrow Reactions from Facebook.
These Stories Reactions will be available when you click on the Reply button on a user’s story like facebook. When you select the preferred reaction then it will be sent to the user in separate DMs. The feature is available for select users in some parts of South America.
Instagram is testing Story "Reactions". It works kinda like the existing Facebook Stories Reaction pic.twitter.com/z2tAg8BcP2
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) April 27, 2018
Another one is a Slow-Mo feature, You can post stories by recording motion videos, in the future.
NEW Instagram is testing a 'Slow-Mo' feature for Stories
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— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) April 27, 2018
Mute button, This feature lets users mute posts from certain profiles in their feed, without having to unfollow them. Which is different from muting audio or video of any user, later you can also unmute it.
Currently, Instagram has STORIES’ CALENDAR ARCHIVE VIEW in the form of a list with date tags, It will add new Calendar view for social media addicts in order to make slightly easier to managing their dozens of stories according to date, month, and year.
NEW? Instagram Stories Archive – Calendar view
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— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) April 27, 2018
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