Today, the use of social media applications such as Instagram is absolutely essential for documenting personal life and, of course, for work-related matters as well. While it helps you stay in touch with your loved ones, increased usage can be a cause for concern, and most importantly, it shouldn’t come at the cost of sacrificing real responsibilities. Luckily, Instagram has a bunch of built-in features to help you disconnect from it, allowing you to focus on other areas of your life. Here, let’s see how you can limit your usage…

Instagram is known for frequently adding new features to keep the user experience fresh and thus updating the user experience. The latest addition to Instagram’s features are “Add Your Own” templates, which bring the ability to create new custom templates for Stories. This allows you to attach GIFs, text, and more to a story template that you can later share with your followers. This appears to be an extension of the “Add Yours” sticker that Instagram first introduced over a couple of years ago. In addition, a template feature for…

Two days ago, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, announced that Threads is currently undergoing testing to make its posts available on Mastodon and other platforms that support the ActivityPub protocol. However, achieving full compatibility with the entire fediverse may take some time, as Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, has pointed out several crucial issues that need to be resolved. If you find some of the terms mentioned unfamiliar, you’re not alone. The latest trend in social media platforms remains comprehensible only to the most dedicated tech enthusiasts. Therefore,…

Instagram continues to add new features that improve the user experience, ensuring that it remains relevant and functional for its users. Now the popular app owned by Meta has introduced the ability to send video notes. It should be noted that Video Notes are not a replacement for Instagram Stories, as the name suggests, as Video Notes can be up to 2 seconds long. However, you can add subtitles to your short videos. Instagram has also introduced more ways to respond to notes from friends and family. This includes photos,…

If you’ve been using Instagram for many years, it seems that there has been a problem with the videos you’ve been uploading to the platform all this time. Many users seem to have noticed that old videos have no sound when playing them, in fact they also get a pop-up message saying that the video has no sound. The issue seems to have affected videos uploaded in 2014, and we’re not sure what has caused people to experience this lack of sound. But the good thing is that Meta is…

Threads, the social media platform fueled by Instagram, has been consistently enhancing its functionality by introducing fresh features. Many of these additions were highly sought-after by users, and their long-awaited arrival has brought immense joy to the user community. In a recent development, Threads has now made keyword search available worldwide, catering to all languages. Initially, this feature was tested in specific English and Spanish-speaking regions, but it has now been extended to encompass all users. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, posted on Threads and announced the feature. He said:…

Instagram, the photo and video sharing platform owned by Meta, now allows users worldwide to save clips from public accounts directly to their camera rolls. This feature was previously only available in the US. However, discs saved with this process still display a watermark with the creator’s Instagram handle. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, said on his Instagram feed: “Reels update, you can now save rolls created with public accounts to your camera roll – every roll you upload is watermarked with the creator’s Instagram handle. We rolled it out…

Meta-owned photo and video sharing platform Instagram recently rolled out a new update that allows users to post and scroll with only a select group of friends. The new feature, highlighted by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, gives users more control over their privacy. With the addition of stories and notes, users can tailor their content for more personalized sharing. Sharing posts and reels exclusively with your close friends list ensures that only members of this select group can view your stories, likes, and comments. Users can now access the feature…

Instagram, the popular photo and video sharing platform owned by Meta, has rolled out new features including more than 20 new photo filters, 10 new English text-to-speech voices, six new text fonts and custom AI stickers. These additions give users more ways to edit their content before sharing it. “Today we’re sharing several improvements to reels, feeds, carousels, and stories, as well as new insights to help you better understand how your content is performing,” the Meta-owned app wrote in a blog post. According to the company, Instagram is adding…

Threads, which launched as an alternative to the ever-changing X (formerly Twitter) about four months ago, has successfully created a welcoming environment for users. This is due to its prompt introduction of new features, responsiveness to user feedback, and support for the decentralized social media infrastructure known as the fediverse. However, users have expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of direct messaging (DM) functionality. Despite being a highly requested feature, developers and decision-makers of the platform are facing significant challenges in addressing this issue. Earlier today, November 15th, Platformer’s Casey Newton…

Instagram has offered the ability to share stories and notes with “Close Friends” for quite some time. If you’re not aware of the feature, it’s basically a way to only share certain stories with the people you choose. this means that people outside of this list can’t see your stories. Now, Mark Zuckerberg announced on his Meta broadcast channel that “Close Friends” is expanding into feed and reels. This means you can post more types of content in a smaller group. In particular, the “Close Friends” feature was first introduced…