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Sneha Bhardwaj June 5th, 2019 11:03 AM 0 COMMENTS

Instagram Adds Data Saver Feature to its Android App

To ensure uninterrupted functioning of the app in areas of low networks, Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram on Tuesday announced a data-saver feature for Android users. The feature would neither pre-load videos nor download high-resolution images, unless the user chooses, giving people the ability to control their data usage on Instagram and increase the speed for loading images. "With this data saver feature, we're hoping for an uninterrupted Instagram experience in... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj May 24th, 2019 7:47 PM 0 COMMENTS

Instagram Adds Landscape Videos Support on IGTV

In yet another attempt to keep its long-video supporting IGTV feature afloat, Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram has added support for videos shot in landscape mode. "We've heard from creators who want to upload landscape videos for IGTV. Similarly, we've heard from viewers who come across landscape videos in IGTV but want to watch them in a more natural way. That's why we're announcing support for landscape videos in addition to... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj May 17th, 2019 1:34 PM 0 COMMENTS

Instagram Kills Direct Standalone Messaging App

Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram is putting an end to "Direct", its standalone camera-first messaging app which was used to send Instagram direct messages. "In the coming month, we'll no longer be supporting the 'Direct' app. Your conversations will automatically move over to Instagram, so you don't need to do anything," a message popping up on the app reads. The announcement was first spotted by social media commentator Matt Navarra, The... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj May 13th, 2019 9:58 AM 0 COMMENTS

Instagram Testing New Stickers for Showing Music Lyrics in Background

Facebook-owned messaging app Instagram is testing a new Sticker feature that will show music lyrics of a song playing in the Stories background. Still in development, the feature was predicted in April on Twitter by reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong, who even demonstrated its working in a short music video from Rick Ashley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" alongside its lyrics, The Verge reported on Saturday. Details about what exact... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj April 19th, 2019 6:04 PM 0 COMMENTS

Instagram Testing Co-Watching Feature on Mobile App

Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram is testing a new feature that would let users co-watch on-platform video content with friends while being able to see their reactions on the video via the phone cameras. The option would start with a split-screen view, where users would be able to apply face filters and other visual tools to their personal camera feeds, Social Media Today reported on Thursday. "Instagram's co-watching media picker is... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj April 12th, 2019 7:17 PM 0 COMMENTS

Instagram Stories From Certain Users Said to Expose Data to Complete Strangers

Adding to the breach scandals surrounding Facebook and its family of apps, this time a bug on photo-messaging app Instagram exposed Stories from certain users to complete strangers. Out of Instagram's total global one billion followers, over 500 million users actively use the Stories feature and this incident, once again, raised major safety and privacy concerns among users. On Thursday, TechCrunch reported that it "first received word of the problem... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj March 29th, 2019 10:20 AM 0 COMMENTS

Instagram Testing Seek Bar for Shorter Videos

Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram is testing a seek-bar for shorter videos to let users drag the cursor to watch specific parts of the videos. The functionality is already offered for IGTV videos on the platform. But now it is being tested for the 60-second videos users upload on their accounts to make locating desired parts of the videos easier for followers. The test feature was discovered by reverse engineer Jane... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj March 8th, 2019 3:02 PM 0 COMMENTS

Instagram May Introduce User Filter Options and Co-Watching in Video Calls Features

Facebook-owned photo messaging app Instagram may introduce some new tools, user-filter options, co-watching in video calls and minor interface tweaks on the app. "Instagram is testing chronological sorting options for users along with a search bar in the 'Likes' list," tech tipster Jane Manchun Wong tweeted on Thursday. The user-filter option would let users sort their "Following" and "Followers" lists by most recent additions or the opposite. "The capacity could... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj February 19th, 2019 12:56 PM 0 COMMENTS

Instagram Stories May Soon Get a Donation Sticker

Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram is reportedly testing a donation sticker on its Stories feature that would offer fundraising and donation tools for charity or personal reasons. "Instagram is working on 'Donation' sticker. It lets users start fundraisers for their favorite non-profits," tipster Jane Manchun Wong tweeted on Monday. Facebook has been hosting such fundraising tools since 2015 and it recently dropped fees associated with those donations. "Over the past few... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj January 26th, 2019 2:36 PM 0 COMMENTS

Facebook Might Allow Inter Messaging Between WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram Users: Report

Facebook is currently working towards integrating its chat services -- WhatsApp, Messenger, and photo-sharing app Instagram -- to let their users to message each other across platforms. All of the three apps will support end-to-end encryption, but Facebook is yet to provide a timeline for when this will happen, The New York Times reported late on Friday. "Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, plans to integrate the social network's messaging services... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj December 28th, 2018 2:19 PM 1 COMMENTS

Instagram Pulls Back Horizontal Feed Scrolling Update After Facing Backlash from Users

Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram has come under fire after it introduced a major upgrade, a scrolling feature, only to roll it back within an hour. The update gave way to users to tap to see more pictures instead of scrolling through a feed of pictures from friends on the platform, resulting in an online outcry late on Thursday and dedicated Instagram users took to Twitter to rant about the "unwanted"... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj November 30th, 2018 4:35 PM 1 COMMENTS

Instagram Now Allows You to Share Stories With Select Users

Popular photo-sharing platform Instagram on Friday announced its users can now make a "close friends" list on its "Stories" to share it with the people they've selectively added. It is a global roll-out and to add people to their list, users need to go to their profile and tap on "Close Friends" in the side menu. "Only you can see your close friends list and no one can request to... Read More