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Instagram Now Lets You Pin up to Three Posts or Reels to Your Profile
You can now pin up to three posts or Reels to the top of your Instagram profile. The company made the announcement today on its Twitter page but had begun testing pinned posts in April. All pinned posts or Reels will appear at the top …
Instagram to Start Rolling Out Amber Alerts to Feeds to Help Find Missing Children
In partnership with organizations that cater for missing children, Instagram announced today it is rolling out Amber Alerts to users’ feeds. The feature is rolling out in the US at first but it will be available in 25 countries “in the coming weeks.” Amber Alerts …
Instagram is Changing its Ranking to ‘Value Original Content More’
Instagram is rolling out some new features among which is ranking for originality. Company head, Adam Mosseri said in a video outlining the new features. “If you create something from the scratch, you should get more credit than if you are resharing something that you …
Instagram Finally Brings Back the Chronological Feed
After the company began testing the return of the chronological feed in January, Instagram announced today the feed is once again available to everyone more than five years after it switched to an algorithm-controlled feed. The algorithm-controlled feed is not going away but users will …
Instagram Rolls Out Product Tagging Feature to all US Users
Starting today, Instagram is expanding its product tagging feature to everyone over the next few months, the company announced. Instagram first introduced product tagging on posts in 2016 but only creators could take advantage of the feature. With the roll out in the United States, …
Instagram Introduces Enhanced Tags for Proper Creator Crediting
Instagram wants “marginalized and underrepresented creators and collaborators whose contributions are often behind the scenes” to be known and the company is introducing enhanced tags to make this work. Starting today, creators will have a new way to give proper credit to other creators through …
Videos on Instagram will Now Have Auto-Generated Captions
Instagram is adding auto-generated captions to videos, company head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday saying the feature has been “a long time coming.” Captions will now appear automatically on videos but users will still be able to decide to turn them off or on. Twitter …
Reels Launches Globally on Facebook in More than 150 Countries
Today, Meta announced it is launching Reels on Facebook globally in more than 150 countries on Android and iOS. Since its launch in the US on Facebook, it was also made available in Mexico, Canada, and India but the Tik-Tok-like short-form video is now coming …
Instagram is Rolling Out Private Story Likes
Instagram wants your DM conversation to be better organised, in response to this the company is rolling our Private Story Likes. Instead of you sending an emoji or replying with a text which normally appears as a DM conversation, you will now be able to …
Instagram Is Testing Creator Subscriptions in the U.S.
Instagram today announced it will begin testing subscriptions in the US with only a limited number of creators having access to the feature for now. “With Instagram Subscriptions, creators can develop deeper connections with their most engaged followers and grow their recurring monthly income by …
Instagram Begins Testing Two New Feed Options Including the Return of Chronological Feed
After promising to bring back the chronological feed at a Senate hearing in December, Instagram head Adam Mosseri in a video posted on Twitter on Tuesday revealed the company has started testing the feature. In a video demonstration, Mosseri revealed three different feed options from …
Instagram is Bringing Back the Chronological Feed, says Head Adam Mosseri
At a Senate hearing today, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said the social media app is bringing back the chronological feed. Mosseri testified at a Senate panel answering questions concerning the safety of young people on the app. “We believe in more transparency and accountability and …
Instagram’s ‘Playback’ Lets You Relive Your Favourite 2021 Stories
It took many years but Instagram is officially jumping on the year-in-review trend Facebook has been doing for a while. The Meta-owned platform today announced the launch of Playback, a new feature that lets you see your favourite Stories from 2021 all over again. In …
Instagram Introduces Safety Features for Teens with Parental Control to Rollout Next Year
As part of its measures to keep the community safe, Instagram is introducing some new tools and features for parents and guardians early next year as well as a new ‘Take a Break’ feature for teens. The first set of tools will be available in …
Instagram will Now Let You Delete an Image or Video from a Carousel
When Instagram introduced the carousel feature in 2017, it was a welcome development. People were able to share up to 10 photos and videos in a single Instagram post but the feature wasn’t perfect because users could not go back to delete a single image …