Instagram is doing a little simplifying and housekeeping: the Facebook-owned company will be removing Direct, its standalone messaging app that was originally unveiled in 2017, within the next month.
Voice messaging began rolling out globally on Instagram Direct today, allowing you to send short audio message to a contact in a walkie-talkie-like fashion.
Instagram’s Explore tab is still personalized according to your interests and preferences, but now automatically organizes content into topic channels that you can mute at will.
Instagram Direct now lets up to four people conduct a video chat at the same time. In addition, the app is rolling out a redesigned Explore tab and new camera effects
Instagram is improving photo and video replies to make it easier to have fun visual conversations with your friends.
Facebook-owned Instagram announced Monday that users can now save their own live-streamed Instagram videos to their iPhone. You can now tap Save in the upper-right corner of a finished live video to save the broadcast to the Photos library on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. The iPhone photography app will continue to remove live videos from the interface after you’ve watched them, but you can now hold onto any video to re-watch it later. These updates require Instagram 10.12, available free from App Store.
Tuesday, Facebook-owned Instagram launched some notable improvements for its private-messaging feature, called Instagram Direct.
Available in Instagram’s 7.5 update, a free download in the App Store, Instagram Direct now supports threaded conversations and allows you to pick a photo from a user’s feed to send to a friend or group privately as a Direct message.
And just like clockwork, Instagram’s newly-updated mobile app is now live in the App Store with support for Instagram Direct, a new feature announced just an hour ago at the company’s Share a Moment media event in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. This capability that some mistakenly refer to as a private messaging feature introduces much-needed granularity to sharing by allowing users to send a photo or video not only to a group of their Instagram followers, but also to those not following them on the service…
iPhone photography fans, rejoice! Facebook-owned Instagram is holding its Share a Moment media event in Midtown Manhattan, New York City and co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom has just taken the wraps off Instagram Direct, a new feature designed to make it easy to limit specific photos and videos to select groups of friends.
The capability is available now through Instagram’s just-updated free iPhone app. As for Instagram metrics, Systrom said Instagram grew from 80 million users at the beginning of 2013 to 150 million users worldwide, with half of Instagram’s users accessing the service on a daily basis…
