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A new Instagram feature automatically filters out abusive direct messages
Instagram is launching new features to prevent folks from sending you abusive direct messages (DM) and stop blocked users from contacting you from a new account.
How to do a group video call with up to 8 people on Instagram
Learn how to make a group video call with up to 8 people on Instagram and spice up the call with effects, backgrounds, and more. These steps work for both iPhone and Android users.
Instagram now tells you who cannot see a private post or story before you hit Send
Aside from rolling out suggested posts in your feed this morning (which is related to the content you already follow), Instagram today also launched another new feature which aims to prevent accidental sharing of private posts and stories to people in direct messages.
Why and how to restrict someone on Instagram
Learn how to restrict someone on Instagram and why it’s a useful feature to manage unwanted interactions and be safe on the platform.
Instagram is killing off its standalone Direct messaging app
Instagram's standalone direct-messaging app, called "Direct from Instagram," will be killed off in the next few weeks, TechCrunch reports. A spokesperson for the Facebook-owned company has acknowledged that “We’re rolling back the test of the standalone Direct app”.
Instagram launching walkie-talkie voice messaging feature in Direct
After launching video chat in its built-in messaging feature, aptly named Direct, earlier this summer, Facebook-owned Instagram today began rolling out voice messages.
Instagram begins rolling out video chat in Direct & topic channels in Explore
Less than two weeks after previewing video chat in Direct along with a tweaked Explore tab, Instagram today updated its mobile app with support for these improvements.
Instagram launches new ways to reply with photos and videos in Direct
Instagram on Thursday announced new ways to reply with photos and videos in Direct that the company hopes will help users conduct fun conversation with their friends in a more visually appealing manner, including one feature that permits you to send a split-screen reply.
You can now save your Instagram live videos
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.
Instagram Direct rolls out threaded messaging and sending feed content privately
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.
Instagram 5.0 launches in App Store with Instagram Direct support
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...