Tap Into the Power of Notes, Group Profiles and More With Instagram's Latest Sharing Features

Delhi : People use Instagram to connect with others, whether it's to check up with friends or discover common hobbies. We're releasing a number of enhancements today to make it easier for you to feel connected to the people you care about.

Share Your Opinions

We're starting to roll out Notes, a new method to communicate with pals and see what they're up to. Using only text and emoticons, notes are brief posts that can be up to 60 characters long. Go to the top of your inbox, choose the individuals you follow back or those on your list of close friends, and then type a message. It will stay at the top of their inbox for 24 hours. Responses to notes will show up in your email as DMs.

We discovered throughout testing that consumers appreciated having a quick, simple way to express their thoughts and strike up dialogues. Notes allow individuals a casual and spontaneous method to express themselves and engage with each other, from seeking suggestions to discussing what they're up to.

Make Memories With Your Friends

People like posting various events from their days, from highlights to more routine ones, on Stories. To make sharing more spontaneous and enjoyable and to help individuals forge deeper bonds with friends, we're experimenting new features in Stories.

• Include your own nominations: We've observed how prompts encourage individuals to share in spontaneous and original ways ever since we introduced Add Yours in Stories last year. In a beta version of Add Yours, you may ask friends to join by hitting the pass it on button whenever you encounter a question that makes you think of them.
  
• We're starting to test Candid Stories, a new feature that allows you and your friends to record and share what you're doing at the moment in a tale that only others who also share their own may see. Using the tales camera, the multi-author story at the top of the feed, or the daily notification reminder that appears after your first candid, take a picture candidly.  You may easily turn off the daily notification reminder in your Settings if you don't want to receive it. On Facebook Stories, we're testing a similar functionality.
  

Work together and stay on top of groups

On Instagram, group conversations are frequently created by users to exchange amusing material, discuss memories, and coordinate activities with pals. To provide individuals additional opportunities to work together and communicate with friends in groups, we are experimenting new features.

• Group profiles will soon be available for anyone to create and join, allowing them to share experiences and postings with friends in a dedicated, shared profile. When you publish something to a Group Profile, it will be put there rather than on your personal profile and will only be visible to other members of the group. Tap the Plus and choose Group Profiles to start a new group profile.
  
• We're developing a feature called collaborative collections that enables users to connect with friends through common interests by saving posts to a collaborative collection in your group or 1:1 DMs. By saving a post directly from the feed or sharing a post with a buddy through DM and saving it from there, you may create or add to a collaborative collection.