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Instagram updates in 2018
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Instagram popularity across the world is breaking records. In many respects, it's a merit of developers. They constantly introduce many interesting features to attract users and maximize their use of resources for promoting standard and business accounts.
What service introduced in 2018? We offer you a small review of Instagram updates.
Gif animation
Innovations appeared at the very beginning of this year. Since January 23, users finally got an opportunity to supplement their posts with animated GIFs. They are hundreds of funny moving smiles on many different subjects: for children - in a form of fairy-tale heroes, commercial, historical characters, symbols, congratulatory, romantic ones. You just must choose the most appropriate to your photo or video entourage. Gifs have a search option by English keywords. You can also upload some gifs through Giphy.
Example: adding a gif to your Instagram story
- Choose a photo for sharing.
- Select "Add Sticker" option.
- In a proposed list of sticker types, you will see a gif-animation. This badge is in the second row left side.
- You will see the most popular dynamic icons.
- Tap that one you want to add to your main photo anywhere on the screen.
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What are they used for?
Gif-animation can not only serve as an original decoration of a picture but also cover unwanted part: people's faces, signs with addresses, pointers. In short, it provides the function of preserving a certain privacy. For promotional purposes, this is a good idea for an attractive showcase decoration of an Instagram online store and also for products and services advertising.
Text mode
Main Instagram focus is on your photo. Therefore, in order for followers to become interested in such type of information (for example, in any important announcement), an effective test mode has been created. It has four font options: neon, typewriter, modern, bold. The switch is on the right from “live” button. The circle left side changes the text background; the backlight changes an “A” icon; “<” allows you to add stickers.
Emoji Slider
Another type of stickers. But it also has a certain function. Emoji Slider helps you provide original mini-polls in your stories. Instead of choosing one of two answers, followers drag the slider. This quite matches Instagram style, where visual content prevails.
How does it work?
This algorithm is simple. We begin, as usual, with the selection of a snapshot for your post. Then click on "Smilies" in the upper right-hand corner of your screen and find the emoji slider in an opened list. It looks like this:
Now we proceed to the setting: write your question in the field, select some emoticon for the slider, font type, color. For completing the action, click on "tick". You can change the location and size of your sticker as you want simply by moving it around your smartphone display.
For finding out the voting results, open your story with the poll and swipe your finger up the screen. The statistics will immediately appear before you: who and how emotionally assessed your post. So, what have you got? Fire, joy, anger, admiration, hugs?
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New posts
In March, this social network functionality was extended with “New posts” button. With its help, each user can independently determine the time of updating his news feed and viewing previously posted materials. Initially, updating occurred automatically. When the page was opened a list of new posts appeared on top. This caused some inconvenience.
User Status
In future, a separate messenger for Instagram, similar to Viber, WhatsApp and Telegram, will be created. You should download and install it offline. At one time, a similar situation was with Facebook - another social media resource. Probably, it's associated with displaying recent actions in Direct or the time spent in this network by any of your correspondents. Because of such a fact that this seems to violate anonymity, not all users liked this innovation. But this is not such a big problem. You can easily disable notifications through profile settings:
IGTV
Pay attention to an icon in the form of a TV on your homepage, located near Direct. IGTV is a kind of special video channel. In fact, it's a completely autonomous application, synchronized with your account on Instagram if necessary. It's installed free of charge in the apple store or play store, depending on the type of your operating system. IGTV allows you to post and view videos, share with friends video clips with vertical orientation and up to 60 minutes. Followers are duplicated from one app to another: if someone has followed or unfollowed you on IGTV, it will also affect the statistics on your Instagram profile.
How to create your own channel on IGTV?
This is done either through an Instagram account or directly in IGTV app. Simply select “Create a channel” in the settings and read a step-by-step instruction. Done!
Nametags
Nametags are the hottest Instagram update available from 01.09.2018 in the app beta versions. Now you can scan links from any device for searching and following a user from his virtual business card like with a QR code.
How to create your own business card on Instagram?
On your profile main page, open the context menu section. Immediately under your username, you will see an icon:
Click on it to start working on your nametag design. At this moment, there are several options for the background: colour, smiles or selfies with stickers.
When you choose the right one, click on a Share button to post a link to your personal account on other social networks, email recipients, etc.
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Questions
Another Instagram upgrade is a questions sticker. Because of a new function, it’s possible to provide not only polls but also collect them for further answers. The functionality is similar to anonymous questions services but without anonymity.
Main goal of the update is increasing engagement and increasing the amount of published content.
Perspectives
Some new functions are currently being tested, and it's not known when they will be available to the public. Here is a short list:
- turning on background blur;
- synchronization with Spotify service for listening to musical compositions in stories;
- adding virtual 3D-objects to your video;
- audio and video calls;
- live photos without need to install additional applications;
- uploading personal data and all previously posted content in the form of a zip archive with one button;
- statistics about who and when did screenshot of your posts;
- changing the news feed appearance.